Not everyone dreams of playing music from a young age. Often happens, that interest to her wakes up at teenage age, and even later. The Soviet composer Nikolaev Aleksey was born in a family of musicians, but before thirteen years he was pretty cool to the pianoforte. Nevertheless, he became one of the outstanding composers of his time. He managed to become an opera master and a musician with an unusual vision.
Art more attracted to the young man, hewrote and defended his thesis on the work of Seghers. But later the music obscured everything, he began to write his first works. It is interesting that the composer's work is as multifaceted as his interests. He tried himself in different genres and subjects. Over the years he has created several operas, ballets, symphonies, oratorios and many other works.
No less success enjoyed the work "At the Pricelife "based on a play by Salynsky. Contemporaries noted that the vocal parts of Nikolayev's operas were simple even for first-year students. He regretted without modification and copied even very large pieces. However, Aleksey Aleksandrovich evaluates the opera in Sallynsky critically. He was dissatisfied with his brainchild and more than once noted that he could write better. Much better, in his opinion, were the operas of the mid-eighties - "Count Nulin" and "Feast during the plague."
One of the most attractive works of the masteris the opera "The Last Days", written according to the work of Mikhail Bulgakov. Nikolaev Alexei was able to develop and generalize the idea of the author of the work. The whole opera can be divided into several parts and a lot of symphonic episodes with different moods: lyrical, grotesque and epic.
Two time coordinates turned on handmaster in two musical series: natural and dynamic. Now thirteen symphonic etudes from this opera are performed as separate works - variations. Interesting and the end of the work. For him Nikolaev Alexey Alexandrovich used the call of a cuckoo.
Another career success can be calleda lot of films and performances, to which he wrote music. They were very popular in Soviet times, but now most of these pictures are forgotten. For his achievements in the professional sphere, Alexey Nikolaev received many prestigious awards. Among them, one can distinguish the awards named after Shostakovich, Prokofiev and Glinka. But the most important thing is that his works are still performed in philharmonic societies of different cities and studied in conservatories. The most popular instrumental concerts, which they were written in different years for flute, cello, violin, oboe and piano trio.
