The first book in the series about the musical life of Vitebsk in the first quarter of the 20th century has been published
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Музыкальная жизнь Витебска в первой четверти XX века» Гавриила Юдина (Минск, «Медисонт», 2013) — первая ласточка в серии «Книжная лавка Дома Шагала». Об открытии этого издательского проекта Музеем Марка Шагала сообщила его директор Людмила Хмельницкая на презентации вышедшей книги.История ее создания столь же интересна и удивительна, как и содержание всех 304 страниц.
Итак, в основу книги положена рукопись известнейшего советского дирижера, композитора, педагога Гавриила Юдина (1905—1991 гг.). Он родился в Витебске, однако большая часть его жизни прошла в больших городах России, в Санкт-Петербурге и Москве. Но Витебск не отпускал Гавриила Яковлевича. В конце 1960-х он приезжал на родину, встречался с журналистами-телевизионщиками. В то время воспоминания знаменитого земляка о старом Витебске, его известных людях, культурной жизни впервые записала редактор областной студии телевидения Алла Никитина (ныне журналист, писатель, живет и работает в Иерусалиме). Все годы она хранила ценную во всех отношениях запись. А недавно передала интервью для публикации в
“Musical Life of Vitebsk in the First Quarter of the 20th Century” by Gavriil Yudin (Minsk, “Medisont”, 2013) is the first swallow in the “Chagall House Bookshop” series. The opening of this publishing project by the Marc Chagall Museum was announced by its director, Lyudmila Khmelnitskaya, at the presentation of the published book.
The story of its creation is as interesting and amazing as the content of all 304 pages.
So, the book is based on the manuscript of the most famous Soviet conductor, composer, and teacher Gavriil Yudin (1905–1991). He was born in Vitebsk, but most of his life was spent in large Russian cities, in St. Petersburg and Moscow. However, Vitebsk did not let Gavriil Yakovlevich go. In the late 1960s, he visited his hometown and met with television journalists. At that time, the memories of the famous countryman about old Vitebsk, its famous people, and cultural life were first recorded by Alla Nikitina, an editor at the regional television studio (now a journalist, writer, living and working in Jerusalem). For all these years, she kept the valuable recording in every respect. And recently, she provided the interview for publication in
"Bulletin of the Marc Chagall Museum", to the museum where Yudin's manuscript, created by him in 1961–1972, has been located for a good decade. Yudin was preparing it for publication in the series "From the Musical Past", but this never happened. Before his death, the conductor left the typescript to the Moscow art critic Alexandra Shatskikh (Doctor of Art History, historian of the Russian avant-garde A. Shatskikh has repeatedly visited Vitebsk, she has written a major research paper dedicated to the Vitebsk Art School of 1917–1923, and now lives in New York and Moscow. – Ed.). She transferred this unique work to Vitebsk, to the Marc Chagall Museum. The only thing that remained unknown was the author's title of the manuscript, as the first pages were missing. And the poet David Simanovich, who preserved Yudin's letter addressed to him on January 10, 1967, helped to restore it: "By the way, I can inform you that I have almost finished a major work... ""Musical Life of Vitebsk in the First Quarter of the 20th Century"".All these events intertwined so closely that the birth of the idea to publish Gavriil Yudin's manuscript in his homeland became the most natural regularity. And now the book, containing unique information about the stars of the musical world, whose paths crossed in Vitebsk, about the life of the local musical intelligentsia, has become public domain. On its pages – a story about the tours of soloists of the Berlin Royal Opera, the Italian opera troupe of the Gonzares brothers, the famous Russian singer Leonid Sobinov… Vivid episodes present the history of the Vitebsk People's Conservatory and the musicians who worked there with world names, material about Vitebsk's richest music library, and much more.
The publication also includes additions. These are articles by Lyudmila Khmelnitskaya about Gavriil Yudin, Valentina Kucherenko about the Vitebsk City Theater in 1873-1917, employees of the State Archives of the Vitebsk Region Svetlana Myasoedova about entertainment gardens
"Europe", "Elagi", Lenin Garden and others, which served as concert venues, Olga Kuzmenkova about the musical and instrumental collection, Yulia Paskanyeva about the violinist and teacher Karl Grigorievich, who in 1919 joined the professorial staff of the People's Conservatory.The book was published thanks to the cooperation and financial investments of the Marc Chagall Museum and the State Archives of the Vitebsk Region.
Natalia Krupitsa, "Vitbichi"