Композитор Разуманов

**любитель** · 18.02.2007, 21:20

Послушал сонату для альта с фортепьяно Разуманова. Мне понравилось. Это не авангард, но очень интересно. К сожалению ничего не знаю про композитора, кроме того, что он давно живет во Франции. Может кто-нибудь просветить и написать о нем ? Есть ли его записи ?

**8u8** · 18.02.2007, 23:34

Валерий Арзуманов

Arzumanov, Valery Grantovich
(b nr Vorkuta, Russia, 3 Aug 1944). Russian composer. He trained in Leningrad as a violinist and composer at the Special Music School attached to the Conservatory (1958–63) and then at the Conservatory itself (1963–8; postgraduate studies 1968–71) in the composition class of V. Salmanov. He has taught in both establishments. In 1974 he moved to France where he studied composition with Messiaen at the Paris Conservatoire (1974–

, and at the musicology faculty of the Sorbonne (1984–5). Since 1991 he has been Professeur-animateur of the national music school at Notre Dame de Gravenchon and since 1994 he has also taught analysis at the Rouen Conservatoire.
A prolific composer, Arzumanov’s moral and religious quests are reflected in his continuous search for new styles and genres. He has studied the music of Mahler, Shostakovich and the Second Viennese School, the music of ancient civilizations, pop music, and the church canticles of the Orthodox tradition, and willingly uses their forms and devices in his works in his efforts to find a spiritual kinship with distant epochs and peoples. The piano cycle Fortepiannïy mir ‘Piano World’ which he wrote at the end of the 1980s includes more than 400 pieces and is a unique and resonant diary of the composer’s life; in it he captured the vicissitudes of life through the most varied musical impressions retained by his memory. Themes of childhood are frequently encountered in Arzumanov’s work; they are sometimes associated with recollections of his own dramatic childhood spent in the far north of Russia in the Stalinist Gulag where his parents met. They had been exiled there in 1936 as ‘enemies of the people’; in works such as Pamyati V.T. Shalamov ‘In memory of Varlam Tikhonovich Shalamov’ and Babushka Khava ‘Grandmother Khava’ the composer expresses a thought which is dear to him – that of suffering as a means to penitence and purification. Another large cycle, having an autobiographical and deeply lyrical character, are the songs which Arzumanov set to his own words and which he himself performed with a guitar accompaniment. Many of his earliest works are orchestral, but he has since written works for soloists, ensemble (often of an unusual make-up) and choir. He has published six volumes of poetry (in Russian) and has written articles on many of his contemporaries including Butsko, Karamanov and Golovin.

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