TF Family Biography

Valery Gergiev. The biography of the famous maestro shall be shared on April 5, the Tyumen Philharmonic on the eve of the XVII of the Moscow Easter Festival, which will be held in Tyumen on April 14, I would like to talk about the life and creative activities of an outstanding musician, people's artist, laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation, and the Prize of the Government of the Russian Federation Valery Abisalovich Gergiev.

Valery Gergiev - conductor of the London Symphony and Munich Philharmonic Orchestras - has remained the permanent artistic director of the Mariinsky Theater since the year. The musician’s talent delights, Gergiev managed to open Russian music to the Western viewer. Valery Abisalovich was born on May 2 in Moscow. The only son of Gergievs was named in honor of the test pilot Valery Chkalov, who was the first to make a non-respondent flight across the North Pole.

Parents - Ossetians by nationality, father - Abisal Zaurbekovich Gergiev - commanded the battalion during the war. When Valery was 13 years old, his father was gone. Children were raised by her mother - Tamara Timofeevna Lagkueva. At the age of 7, Tamara Timofeevna brought her son to a music school, where the eldest daughter of Larisa was already engaged. Valeria himself occupied the game of football more, so the boy looked restlessly out the window, listening to the teacher.

The teacher played the melody and asked the boy to repeat the rhythm.

Valery Gergiev repeated. The teacher did not give up and asked to do the same again - the boy decided to improvise. The teacher issued a verdict: Valery has no hearing, let him be better engaged in football. Later, recalling that case from the children's period of his own biography, the famous conductor will say that he tried to improve the musical series, and the teacher did not understand this.

The mother got the son to be enrolled in a music school, where he quickly became the best student. Music lessons and yard games did not prevent Valery from studying well in a regular school - the boy participated in mathematical olympiads. Father managed to teach his son always go to his own goal and fulfill promises, and also love the family. In the year, Valery Gergiev entered the Leningrad Conservatory and studied there for 5 years in the class of Ilya Alexandrovich Musin, the creator of the Leningrad conductor's school.

According to the musician, life in the hostel has become the first school of life. There, Valery fell in love with Russian classics and Richard Wagner, it was love from the first note that the conductor carried through his whole life. Continuation in the following material.