Biography Glinka Education

To the previous chapter, to the next chapter, Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka was born on May 20 in the village of Novospassky Smolensk province in the family of a wealthy landowner. Due to family circumstances, the child from birth fell under the custody of the grandmother, who, surrounding him with excessive love and annoying care, did everything to move the boy from his age and grow a person who was unlike others from him.

A huge event that finally torn it out of this greenhouse atmosphere was music. Here is how Glinka himself tells about this turn: “My father sometimes took a lot of guests at once, and in such cases he sent for the musicians of my uncle - a small orchestra consisting of his serfs, and then this orchestra remained for us for a long time. First of all, he played, of course, dancing under which the guests danced.

But in between he played something else. Some of these things were a source of the most lively enthusiasm for me. Once this music made an incomprehensible, new and delightful impression on me-I remained all day in some kind of feverish state, was immersed in a languidly sweet state and the next day during the drawing lesson increased even more.

Later, when I had a violin, I was faked under the orchestra. During dinner, Russian songs, shifted into two flutes, two clarinet, two valtor and two basins usually played. I liked these sad, but quite accessible sounds for me, and maybe these songs I heard in childhood were the first reason that I began to develop Russian music. ” Glinka, notes. The first music teacher Glinka was Madmoiselle Klammer, with whom he was engaged in up to a year when his ten -year -old boy was given to study at a noble boarding house at the Main Pedagogical Institute in St.

Petersburg. In the capital, he is already seriously engaged in music, takes several lessons from the world -famous pianist and composer of the filde, after which he goes to the excellent German musician Karl Meyer, who began his journey as a student of the filter, and then fell under the influence of Chopin. After rustic peasant music, Glinka is surrounded by the latest movements of European music: the romantic of the filter sentimentalism and the fiery revolutionary romance of Chopin.

In the year, Glinka, having graduated from the boarding house, goes to visit his uncle in his estate in the Smolensk province. This is an important step in his life: at his uncle, he is enthusiastically given to the “real game”. He plays with a peasant orchestra, experiments and gradually begins to compose music, with a happy self -forgetfulness of youth, enjoying the harmony of the sounds of individual instruments and ensembles.