Ivan Sergeevich Vishnevsky is a composer of the cantata-oratorio genre. His talent was recognized by many music critics. He was a favorite of the great George Sviridov.
Biography
Ivan Sergeevich Vishnevsky is a Russian composer and musician with an unusual fate.
Although Ivan Vishnevsky was born in Moscow, the child spent the first years of his life in the United States of America. His father was an international journalist in Washington. He represented the Soviet newspaper Pravda.
Ivan's parents took care that the boy was not torn away from his homeland. In the summer, they sent Ivan to his grandmother, in the Ukrainian town of Akhtyrka. The boy spent time in the company of his relatives. He learned a lot about the Gogol places that were located on the road from little Akhtyrka to Poltava. Picturesque Dikanka, Mirgorod, Great Sorochintsy - that’s what remained a vivid childhood impression for Ivan. He enjoyed listening and memorizing Ukrainian songs that sounded in his grandmother's house.
Ivan received great musical impressions thanks to the radio. Educational programs for children talked about the work of classics, ranging from the music of Johann Sebastian Bach to Russian composers such as Mussorgsky, Glinka, Rimsky-Korsakov.
When the father’s office as a correspondent in America ended, the family returned to Moscow. Parents loved to spend their holidays in Jurmala. Here, on the Riga seaside, music festivals and symphonic evenings often attended by the whole family of Ivan Vishnevsky.
In addition to music, Ivan was fond of zoology. He was educated in a circle of young biologists, very fond of travel, in which one could observe nature.
But the love of music defeated other hobbies.
Study and creative input
Ivan Vishnevsky began to study music quite late - at the age of 17. As a tenth grader in a comprehensive school, he enrolled in a music school. He completely surrendered to the piano playing exercises and accomplished the impossible. After six months of intensive studies, Ivan Vishnevsky successfully enters the famous music school named after the revolution. The choice fell on the theoretical department.
Ivan Vishnevsky said that he heard music in a dream. New melodies came to his mind, which he later recorded on a stave. These were small chamber works.
Successful studies at the school brought him to the composer department of the Gnesins Institute. Here Chernov Gennady Vladimirovich was engaged in his professional training. Under his leadership, Vishnevsky creates musical works for the choir and the famous Symphonietta.
