Klyucharev biography

Photo: The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Tatarstan this week celebrates the birthday of Alexander Sergeyevich Klyucharev, who is called the "Tatar composer of Russian origin." He composed both symphonies and ballets, but we, as usual, will analyze his songs that give a clear idea of ​​what “Tatar music” is. And also recall what the real “Tatar jazz” is. The family from the shore of Kaban Klyucharev was born in Kazan.

Interestingly, his family lived in the house of the merchant Akhmed Khusainova st. Marjani, he moved to the city from Orenburg where they lived for some time and Klyucharev. There is a version that the play “Shoes” Khabibullah Ibrahimov, who later became popular in the version of Jaudat Fayzi and Tazi Gizzat, tells about his daughter. Khusainov died in the year of birth of the composer - in a word, Klyucharev since childhood was entered into the Tatar circles, according to legend, Kucher Galyai introduced him to folk songs.

After the musical college, he served in the Mari Drama Theater, then worked at the Moscow Working Theater and studied at the Conservatory with Reinhold Glier. Before Kazan, he managed to be the head of the musical sector of the Bashkir Research Institute of Language and Literature. In the year, Klyucharev returns to Kazan, and he not only familiar with the Volga culture - he managed to work with her.

But his main position for 13 years is the head of the Cabinet of Musical Folklore of the Office for Arts under the Council of Ministers of the Republic. This means - expeditions, communication with specialists in the Tatar, Mari, Bashkir folklore. Folklore, understandable, multicultural Klyucharev - the author of the suite, symphonies, ballets, music for performances.

And the songwriter. In m, together with Vasily Vinogradov and Muhamed Sadri, he released the first collection of Tatar folk songs, of course, not without the imprint of censorship, but still ...

in general, there were two of them. He also recorded "in the fields" near Bashkir songs. And now these folk creations are performed by Tatar singers in his vision. Klyucharev received his Tukaev Prize for the song collection “Kanatla Yashlek” “Winged Youth” released in the year. Klyucharev, not being Tatar, wrote in the period quite favorable for academic music, when the composer could create Tatar music, that is, based on folk art, using familiar intonations, fragments of melodies.

It is even amazing why she is not performed at official events. The first curious version is from Ilham Shakirov. It sounds like a completely divorced forecast X with a solo flute, in which, however, a Tatar melody is felt. In years, the same song quail VIA Sayyar, which made it already according to the canons of a fashion stage, with a fan guitar, a polyphony.

At the same time, in the melodies, the same, quite ancient, musical theme is heard. Which of these versions is better - let the reader decide. One of the compositions that survived to the present days and is popular is the Tatar samba. Her story is as follows. In the year, the Big band Oleg Lundstrem arrived in Kazan. And he stayed in the city, the participants entered the conservatory.

And Klyucharev, as the leader of the Philharmonic, helped them draw up concert programs. In June, the musicians, already with a higher education, recorded a program of the All -Union House of Sound Recording on our radio program of Tatar music, in which, inter alia, the “waltz” of Saidashev, “Tatar sambucharev,“ Dreams ”of Monasipova sounded. Thanks to this music, Lundstrem managed to get a place in the Kachalovsky Theater, the orchestra acquired costumes, and then completely moved to Moscow.

Unfortunately, now the Lundstrem orchestra does not do these things, but our ensembles play, in particular, the state ensemble of song and dance. And the Philharmonic Jazz Orchestra of the Republic of Tatarstan recorded a clip for him. Radif Kashapov.