Mark Grigorievich Fradkin is a famous composer. His songs became “The Volga River Flows”, “And the years fly”, “Farewell, doves” became popular.
Dark Fradkin was born in Vitebsk in 1914 on May 4 in the family of a doctor.
Childhood
A few months after the appearance of the future celebrity, the First World War began, which grew into a civil war. The family moved to Kursk.
Grigory Fradkin was shot. Mark’s mother, later the Red Army handed the document. It was written that the head of the family died at the hands of the White Guards. The widow was recommended to keep the paper for life. So she did.
Mother and son returned to Vitebsk. They had to go hungry. To feed the child, Evgenia Mironovna worked all day.
Having received complete freedom without supervision, the future composer studied poorly. Every year, teachers called mom to school. The teachers informed her that Mark could stay for a second year.
Evgenia Mironovna proposed her own solution. She told the principal that the family was moving, the boy was moving to another school. The negligent student was given the desired document in the hope that he would not study in this institution.
New Year began in a new team. As a result, Fradkin went around all city schools.
Years of youth
Over time, young Mark managed to pull himself together. The graduate entered the Polytechnic College. A new student hobby was film technology.
After completing his studies, the young man began working as a safety engineer at a garment factory. With her was a club with a theatrical circle. Mark enrolled in it.
After two years of work, the engineer got a job in the troupe of the Belarusian Theater. Twenty-year-old Fradkin moved to Leningrad. He was admitted to the theater institute.
The future of composites began to write songs for student productions. After studying, Mark arrived in Minsk. He was accepted by the actor and the deputy head of the theater to a young audience.
There were no performances in the evenings. The new manager disposed of his free time wisely: he entered the conservatory. Studied the future folk songwriter in the composition class.
Vocation
In 1939, Fradkin was drafted into the army. In the rifle regiment, where the young man was sent, they immediately found out that the musician had come to them.
Mark was assigned the organization of a soldier's ensemble. During the war, Fradkin conducted and directed the Song and Dance Ensemble of the Southwestern Front. Mark Grigorievich served in it until the end of 1943.
The first song he wrote was "Song of the Dnieper", created on the verses he met at the front of Dolmatovsky. Hearing this work, Marshal Tymoshenko put on the composer the order he had removed from him, adding that the presentation of the presentation would take place later. Khrushchev repeated the same act.
The song is widely known. Then followed in collaboration with Dolmatovsky "Random Waltz". During the war, the popular duet of the poet and composer created several songs.
The most famous was the "Bryansk street" performed by Utesov. It was his interpretation that made Fradkin’s songs extremely popular.
In 1944, Mark Fradkin was admitted to the Union of Composers. In the capital, a creative career was successfully gaining momentum. Fradkin collaborated with Dolmatovsky in writing the songs "We lived next door", "Behind a factory outpost".
To the verses of Lev Oshanin in 1944, the work "To Us in Saratov" was created.
Fame and fame
The composer's hallmark for many years was the song "That Big Man" performed by Claudia Shulzhenko. After several decades, the creation was re-performed by Alla Pugacheva.
Fradkina called Edita Pieha her "godfather". The song "Volga" became a real masterpiece. She gained fame after the 1960 film "Flowing Volga".
First performed by Vladimir Troshin. But the song became the most famous among Zykina. Since the beginning of the seventies, together with Rozhdestvensky, Fradkin writes "For that guy", "There, beyond the clouds."
The composer managed to speak a clear language with new listeners, to update the music palette. Mark Grigoryevich had a flair for promising young talents.
He was never afraid to give songs to young singers. Thanks to him, the ensemble "Gems" became popular. After converting part of Gems to Flames, the composer presented fifteen songs to the new collective.
The ensemble participated in Fradkin’s creative fans. With "Good fellows" Fradkin composed a recital. With him he toured the country and traveled abroad.
At the age of over seventy, Mark Grigorievich remained the soul of the whole collective. He created "I will take you to the tundra", "Good omens."
