He sang non -music, scandalized?

Cliche about Vysotsky - we figure out what is true and what is not

By the time of the release of the film by Peter Buslov, “thank you for living” Vysotsky for the vast majority turned into something between a relative and a mythological classic. So quickly and so total into “our everything” in recent history, no one turned. At the beginning of this year, in the capitals, by inertia, his 80th anniversary and again-concerts with causes, the unchanging “but I remember, Volodya” from friends and acquaintances and-silence. On June 20, a month before the anniversary of the death of Vysotsky, the exhibition “Corridors. Seven worlds of Vysotsky ” , created with the participation of the artist-winner of the Zvyagintsev“ nonsense ”and“ Elena ”by Andrei Ponkratov and one of the best Russian operators Vladislav Opelian (“ Summer ”,“ Pupil ”,“ Considers ”). The format of multimedia action perfectly meets the request to an attempt to comprehend Vysotsky’s place in Russian life and culture. In anticipation of the discovery, we propose to deal with several common misconceptions.

Vysotsky was not a composer

Among the fans of Vysotsky there are those who perceive only the orchestral versions of his songs or, in extreme cases, records made in Paris by Konstantin Kazan. Many consider concert notes to be primitive, they say that the guitar was only an auxiliary tool for supporting poetic texts for Vysotsky. But any musician will explain to you how unique his manner of performance was. By the level of rhythm of Vysotsky’s recording, you can put in a row with the works of Johnny Kash, who said that the rhythm always knocks in his head. Vysotsky’s work with the rhythm of music and the word has yet to be really comprehended-there was nothing like this in Russian music either before or after. An interesting detail-the heyday of Vysotsky-musician coincides with the golden age of rock music, which broke away simultaneously with his death-in 1980. Vysotsky actually alone covered all possible rock and junks from the conditional folk of the early period to actually art clock of late records (listen to Solo in the final “Ballads about the departure to paradise”). Many believe that the orchestral versions were invented without Vysotsky’s participation, but this is not so. One of the most striking manifestations of the composer Gift Vysotsky is the disk “Alice in Wonderland”.

Tbilisi. Vladimir Vysotsky during the tour of the Drama and Comedy Theater on Taganka Photo: TASS

Vysotsky played poorly on a frustrated guitar

As an argument, they refer to as if a frustrated guitar, sounding not only on concert, but also on some studio records. At the same time, a music teacher, who was engaged in 10-year-old Volodya in the city of Eberswald, where his father served at the end of the forties, noted the absolute hearing of the student. It is known that Vysotsky was very valuable by the artisan seven -string - it is he who adjusts her in the course of the last television broadcast of 1980, which is invariably shown on the anniversary of birth and death. The seven -string guitar was a conscious choice, not a tribute to fashion. It is thanks to her that Vysotsky’s entries have this special, slightly rattling, low sound, perfectly resonating with an instantly recognizable hoarse baritone.

Vysotsky was not a poet

Another category of people trying to appropriate Vysotsky is bards. Thanks to them, he today has turned into a lonely figure with a guitar, performing verbose purchases under a small guitar battle. However, for the highest Vysotsky, it was the poetic part of his songs that was extremely important. Yuri Lyubimov said in an interview that in the last few years, when health problems have become aggravated, Vysotsky had already written not songs, but that poetry. Joseph Brodsky admired his poetry, and Robert Rozhdestvensky became the compiler of the only one that came out after the death of the collection of poems.

Ghost Hamlet’s Father - Alexander Porokhovshchikov, Gamlet - Vladimir Vysotsky (in the center), Gertrude - Alla Demidova in the play of the Drama and Comedy Theater “Hamlet” photo: Mikhail Strokov/TASKOV/TASKOV

Vysotsky always played himself

The canonical Bengal (“dangerous tour”), Brodsky (from a “intervention” shelf from the shelf of the “intervention”) and Gleb Egorovich Zheglov - heroes, in which, perhaps, there are really many from the real Vysotsky - these are only a few characters. In addition to them, there were a white lieutenant of Brusentsov from “two comrades served”, and von indigenous of “bad good man”, and, in the end, Volodya from the Govorukhin “vertical”. These people are much less popular with the people indicate that Vysotsky’s film career was not a career of an invited star in the spirit of the film Out Frank Sinatra. He was a bright, smart and thin, multifaceted actor, and it was this property that largely allowed him to live a lot of lives and play hundreds of roles in his own songs.

Vysotsky was a dissident

In 2012, as part of the presidential campaign, the head of the campaign headquarters Vladimir Putin Stanislav Govorukhin said that, in his opinion, Vysotsky, with whom the director was friendly, would undoubtedly support him, Govorukhin, a political choice. The speculative statement then caused a storm of discontent, from which it followed that in the minds of many politically active Russians Vysotsky over the years of his posthumous life turned almost into a dissident icon, standing on a par with Sakharov. There were many reasons for this, but they are all indirect. Satiric songs like “Instructions before traveling abroad” were ridiculed not by the system, but by the inertness of its components. He was the prime minister of Taganka-the most noisy and sharp Soviet theater, impartial articles in Pravda wrote about him, he was friends and knew with the color and light of dissident thought and somehow went to the dough for the disgraced ex-head of Khrushchev. Sinyavsky’s words about stylistic discrepancies with the Soviet government can be attributed to Vysotsky. Andrei Donatovich taught at Vysotsky at the Moscow Art Theater School, he consulted with him in Paris in the process of writing “Ballad of Love”. Maria Rozanova says that on the first birthday of Sinyavsky after the sentence in the sentence in the case of Sinyavsky-Daniel, Vysotsky came to the teacher’s house and first sang the just written “Hunting for Volkov”. Vysotsky was certainly not a dissident, but he was undoubtedly a dissenting, free -thought, as is supposed to every real artist.

Vladimir Vysotsky photo: Photoxpress/East News

Nobody needs Vysotsky but Russians

A few years after his death, Vysotsky turned into "Father of Russian Rock." His influence was recognized by Tsoi, Grebenshchikov, Shevchuk, Kinchev and many others. It could not be otherwise - of all men with guitars in Vysotsky, the most harmoniously combined a free and sharp look with a completely fatal drive and desperate presentation.

In general, with all that is usually called "nerve". However, we still habitually consider his songs to be something very local, too peculiar to be understood and heard outside our giant country. Nevertheless, Vysotsky’s streets and Monuments Vysotsky much earlier than in Moscow appeared in Bulgaria, Chicago, Germany and Poland, and in the southern part of America - the Fiery Land archipelago - the name of Vysotsky is one of the mountain plateau.

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