In the modern world of classical music, the name of Vladimir Spivakov is not just well known, but is a real monument. And there are legends about his Stradivarius violin.
The famous domestic musician and conductor - Vladimir Spivakov - is today known throughout the world. This legendary man is currently identified with the Vladimir Spivakov Foundation and the Russian National Orchestra, which he leads.
Short biography of Vladimir Spivakov
In 1944, the future talented Jewish musician was born in Bashkiria. Ekaterina Osipovna Vayntraub gave birth to Theodor Vladimirovich Spivakov in the city of Chernikovsk (now Ufa) Vladimir. These were fierce war years and a harsh life in the rear, where the husband commissar from the front for the wound worked as an engineer. At the end of the war, the family moved to their native Leningrad.
Despite his Jewish roots, Vladimir was baptized as a child and went to almost all services in Orthodox churches. From that time, he remembers well how their family was constantly moving because of the continuous process of improving housing conditions. The moment came when two wealthy families formed and bought the Stradivarius violin, which they gave to the brilliant musician for life. Since then, Spivakov began to argue that it was not he who taught the violin to sound, but it was him.
From the age of six, the boy took violin lessons from the famous master B.E. Kruger. An interesting fact from the life of the maestro when he first heard the piece of music by P. I. Tchaikovsky “Reflection” performed by one of the high school students. Arriving home, Vladimir rehearsed him so that the teacher, who had previously rejected any talent from the boy, was forced to radically change his mind on this issue.
In 1955, Vladimir Spivakov entered the music school at the Leningrad Conservatory. Around the same time, a gifted young man begins to actively develop his talent as an artist, enrolling as a volunteer at the school of painting at the Leningrad Academy of Arts. But, when the question of choosing a profession became acute, he still had to give preference to music.
At the age of thirty-five, an already established musician begins to pursue the profession of conducting, taking lessons for five years from I. B. Gusman in Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod. And then the country learns about the Moscow Virtuosi chamber orchestra, which after some time disintegrates and is recreated in a new form as the Virtuosi. Now Vladimir Teodorovich is becoming a real master and a personality known throughout the music world.
