The musical heritage of the composer of the Mari El Republic Erica Sapaev is well known to all lovers of folk music, songs and theatrical performances on the stage of the national opera and ballet theater. The compositions of the talented author are full of melodies, listening to which you will plunge into the epic past, the green of the forests and the murmur of the rivers. It is a pity that the talent was not able to give us everything that was stored in his soul and could come out in music notebooks.
Biography
Eric Sapaev was born in the capital of the Mari El Republic, the city of Yoshkar-Ola in 1932, on March 4. The father of the future composer was from a peasant family, educated as a teacher, and devoted his activities to administrative activities. Nikita Nikiforovich Sapaev possessed remarkable organizational skills. Eric's father began his work as a teacher in a village school and made a career up to a solid position in the Mari party apparatus.
During the years of political repression, Eric's father was arrested, the family befell the fate of many tragically deprived people. A poor and harsh life began in an atmosphere of general rejection of the family of the enemy of the people. Vera Evdokimovna, Eric’s mother was supported only by her husband’s nephew, who actually became the boy’s second father. The family of the repressed second secretary of the regional committee left for the hinterland - Novotoryalsky district, where the village of Chobykovo, the small father’s homeland, was located.
Eric Sapaev from childhood showed interest in creativity. He participated in school amateur performances, he was the editor of the wall newspaper with pleasure. Most of all Eric loved music and playing musical instruments, especially since this training was very easy for him. The violin, balalaika, accordion easily revealed their secrets to an enthusiastic young man and he learned to masterfully perform folk Mari melodies on these instruments.
Music career
Eric after school enrolled in a teacher training college because he wanted to follow in his father's footsteps. However, the fateful meeting with George Sergeyevich Gusev influenced his further choice. Gusev taught at a music school, where he lured a failed teacher after listening to musical numbers performed by Eric.
In 1952, Sapaev graduated from the school as a violinist. Already during his studies, a talented guy began to compose music. He especially succeeded in melodic songs. After receiving a specialized education, Eric remains to teach the violin class and with all his soul gives himself to his passion. He became a real composer. Even an authoritative commission from the Ministry of Culture and the Union of Composers was impressed by the art of the young musician.
