The ban on life and the posthumous recognition of Vsevolod Zaderatsky

MOSCOW. A double album with the works of Vsevolod Zaderatsky has been released.

There are many examples of mockery of talented composers in the history of Soviet music. A lot of lost works of Alexander Mosolov’s repressions that fell into the meat grinder. The Inquisitorial Ordinance of 1948, which forever changed the life of the people mentioned in it. Early departure from the life of Prokofiev, driven into death trap by nostalgia. Accusations of incompetence of Shostakovich, deprived for a long time of the ability to teach, publish and perform his compositions. Years torn from the life and work of Khachaturian and Muradeli. In the same row - the persecution of Schnittke, a boycott of seven objectionable innovators after the VI Congress of Composers, after which most of them left the country.

Life over the Vsevolod Zaderatsky mocked even more sophisticated. Circumstances incompatible with the title of Soviet composer — music lessons in the royal family and participation in the White movement — had a catastrophic effect on his fate in Soviet times. He miraculously escaped execution, but even Dzerzhinsky’s intervention did not save him from endless persecution, restrictions on rights, arrests, and the barbarous liquidation of creative archives. For decades, the threat of physical destruction hung over him. But the most terrible thing for a creative person was a ban on the profession, the impossibility of creative realization.

The tough taboo on the publication of his works led to the fact that much of what he wrote remained only in miraculously preserved manuscripts. “24 Preludes and Fugues”, presented on the album of the company “Melody”, were written in a camp in Kolyma in 1937. In his free time from logging, on scraps of paper and telegraph forms. The baroque principle with arranging tonalities in a fifth circle was used by him then for preludes and fugues long before Shostakovich and Hindemith.

After his release, he stubbornly tried to do what he loved. Created a symphony orchestra of prisoners in Magadan, among which there were many first-class musicians. He worked in provincial philharmonic societies as a conductor, teacher, even was the leader of one of them. In 1948 he managed to get under distribution during the period of struggle with formalists, despite the lack of published works. The composer died at the end of winter 1953 after several heart attacks. The world premiere of "Preludes and Fugues" took place in 2014 at the Moscow Conservatory.

The album was created by wonderful young musicians - Lucas Geniusas, Ksenia Bashmet, Nikita Mndoyants and others.

Elena Tanakova © Gallerix.ru