Gilels Wikipedia Biography

Three years after Emil, his younger sister, Elizabeth, was born. Emil began playing the piano at the age of five and a half years, his first teacher was Yakov Tkach. Having quickly achieved significant success, Gilels first performs in public in May, performing the works of Liszt, Chopin, Scarlatti and other composers. In the year, Gilels enters the Odessa Institute of Music in the Odessa Conservatory in the class of Berty Rangbald in the class of special harmony Gilels with Professor N.

Vilinsky, and the next year wins at the All -Ukrainian Pianists competition, and a year later meets Arthur Rubinstein, who approvingly responds about his performance. A photograph of the pianists Emil Gilels and Jacob Fleer from left to right, who received the first and third awards at the E. Isai International Competition in Brussels, in the Soviet newspaper Pravda.

May of the year. Fame came to the musician after his victory in the year at the First All-Union contest of musicians-performers, followed by numerous concerts in the USSR. After graduating from the Odessa conservatory in, Gilels entered the graduate school of the Moscow Conservatory in the class of Henry Neigauz. In the second half of the X, the pianist achieves large international successes: he takes the second place in the international competition in Vienna, losing only to Jacob Flier, and two years later he takes a revenge from him, winning the Izai competition in Brussels, where Flier remained in third place.

Returning to Moscow, Gilels begins to teach at the conservatory as an assistant in Neigauz. During the war, Gilels participated in military-chef work, in the fall of the year he gave concerts in the besieged Leningrad, after the end of the war he returned to active concert and teaching. He often performed with his younger sister, violinist Elizabeth Gilels, as well as with Jacob Zak.

In the year [2]], he formed a piano trio with Leonid Kogan Skitch and Mstislav Rostropovich cello, and in [2] - first made concerts abroad, becoming one of the first Soviet musicians who were allowed to do this, toured in Italy, Switzerland, France and Scandinavia. In the city, Gilels was one of the most popular Soviet musicians in the world, spending about nine months a year at concerts and foreign tour.

In the year, after one of the concerts in Amsterdam, he had a heart attack, from which he could not fully recover, despite the fact that he returned to concert activities. Gilels's last performance took place in September in Helsinki. From the year, Gilels taught at the Moscow Conservatory C - a professor, among his students the most famous are Marina Mdivani, Valery Afanasyev, Igor Zhukov and Felix Gotlib.

He headed the jury with a degree in Piano at the first four international competitions. Tchaikovsky, Gilels died on October 14 in the Kremlin hospital from an attack of diabetes. His death was unexpected, incompetent doctors were accused of it, who did not provide him with the necessary assistance in time [6]. He was buried in Moscow at the Novodevichy cemetery [7].

Creativity a memorable sign on the house in which Emil Grigoryevich Gilels lived. Moscow, Tverskaya 25 Gilels - one of the largest musicians of the XX century. An unusually wide pianist repertoire covered piano works from the Baroque era Johann Sebastian Bach, Domenico Scarlatti to the music of the 20th century. Beethoven's works were of particular importance in his work.

Gilels repeatedly performed and recorded all the composer's piano concerts, but did not manage to complete the work by recording all his piano sonata. His game was distinguished by impeccable technology, brightness and power of performance, and at the same time deep lyricism and delicacy of interpretation, a subtle sense of style. Awards and titles of the 1st Prize at the 1st All-Union Competition of Musicians-Artists in Moscow 2nd Prize of the International Pianists competition in Vienna