Bard performers biography

The guitar, volleyball and the first poems: the childhood of Yuri Vizbor 2. University and service in the army 3. He recalled: “Song, its musical system, poems - all this together and is a living and exciting glow of the human soul.” By this time, his father, Yuozas Vizboras, went on a long business trip to Central Asia. A year later, the Vizboras took them back to Moscow, but they did not arrange a marriage for the second time - in the year it saved Maria Shevchenko and Yuri Vizbor from repressions.

Then the father was accused of belonging to the “counter -revolutionary Latvian organization and the preparation of terrorist acts” and shot. Maria Shevchenko transported her son again to Krasnodar. But when the front approached there, Yuri Vizbor was taken to Moscow. At the Moscow school, Vizbor studied in the third shift, since there were not enough teachers.

At the age of 13, Vizbor learned to play the guitar, one of the neighbors introduced him to the main chords. The poet recalled: “The guitar was then considered a symbol of philistinism. One great wrote: the guitar is a tool of hairdressers, offering at once both a great tool and wonderful workers. ” It began with the line "Today I am longing for my beloved." Bard recalled: “A notebook with verses was discovered by a mother during general cleaning.

An investigation took place. The next day, I found on my table a brochure, which was accidentally forgotten by my mother, “What you need to know about syphilis”. Still, she was primarily a doctor. ” In high school, Yuri Vizbor played in the Dynamo school volleyball team, and in his free time he collected aircraft models. But in no university, the graduate was not even accepted by the documents: it was indicated that Vizbor is the son of the enemy of the people.

Then the former classmate Vladimir Krasnovsky advised him to enter the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute. Lenin at the faculty of philology. Bard recalled: "I unexpectedly successfully entered the institute, and only much later, ten years later, I found out that I then managed to do this only thanks to the natural paternal kindness of completely unfamiliar people." Krasnovsky also went through the competition, and friends began to study in the same group.

From the first year, Yuri Vizbor became a member of the literary circle - students wrote poems and printed them in the student newspaper Leninets. Later, Bard wrote in his memoirs: “Of the 30 people in the first year there were only two men. One of them is me. At the faculty, I spoke in eleven sports, for the institute - six. ” In the student, Yuri Vizbor was also carried away by mountaineering.

There he wrote the first song - “Teberda”, named after the mountain river. In those years, he used famous melodies or their variations. He wrote the poem “Karelian Waltz”, and soon the classmate Svetlana Baghdasarova composed music to him. Listen to Teberda - Yuri Vizbor on Yandex. Yuri Vizbor wrote songs to music to student cabbage, often in between lectures. In senior courses, along with a poet friend Yuri Ryashentsev, a bard composed the anthem of the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute-the composition "Miraculously falls asleep." In the year, Vizbor graduated from the University.

In the unit, he learned to be a radio operator. Bard recalled: “A radio operator never is lonely. Even at night in our northern desert. You sit-cold, the bonfires are barely burning, some devils creak in the forest. And turn on the walkie -talkie - in front of you the whole world! The bard composed the composition for his own music in the year, it was the song "Blue Mountains".

And a few months later he married at Ada Yakusheva. She led a female musical ensemble, often went on tour and also composed her songs. Shortly after the wedding, the Vizbor set a job as a correspondent to the main editorial office of the youth broadcasting and prepared radio reports. Then he founded the sound newspaper “Komsomolia” at the editorial office, on which the poet’s army songs were placed.

In the beginning of the x, Yuri Vizbor began to perform in the youth cafes of Aelita, Youth and Romantics, where the evenings of jazz and the author’s song were held.