Grigory Plotnichenko Biography

Park of Plotnichenko with a family. Photo from the family archive of Marina Afanasyeva. Born on August 18 in Taganrog in the family of a port worker. Soon, parents moved to the city of recalling the children's years, Grigory Maksimovich said: "Father and mother were passionate lovers of the Kuban folk song, as well as good performers." Songs fell in love with the boy early, noticing this, the parents sent an 8-year-old son to a music school, where he studied the game for cello.

Only two years managed to study Gregory: the father died, because of the lack of funds at the music school, they stopped. But the music attracted him more and more. He completed this task willingly, since by this time he himself could play on several musical instruments: guitar, mandolin, balalaika, domra. In the year, the Palace of Pioneers and Schoolchildren opened in Krasnodar, and Plotnichenko was one of the first to sign up for the folk instruments orchestra.

In addition to playing the orchestra, Gregory performed at concerts with solo numbers on Mandolin and as a singer. In the summer of the year, he entered the conduct of the Krasnodar Music School of the Krasnodar Music School. Among the teachers were G. Kontsevich - a large expert on singing art, N. Preobrazhensky student M. Gnesin - one of the prominent figures of school musical education in the Kuban, pianist V.

Agarkov and many other famous composers and musicians of the Kuban. The first musical works of Grigory Maksimovich are small plays for the orchestra of folk instruments. He dreamed of the time when he graduates from a music school, and would create songs about the life and people of the Kuban region. But this desire did not come true immediately. The Great Patriotic War began.

Many students and teachers voluntarily went to the front. Among them was Plotnichenko. He had to participate in battles in different sections of the Crimean and Voronezh fronts. Plotnichenko was seriously wounded. The Order of the Red Star, with which he was awarded, found him in Kazan, where he was evacuated along with the StatePaline. Doctors amputated Grigory Maksimovich right forearm.

But he did not lose heart, did not fail. One after another, his songs about the events of the formidable war years, about the exploits of Russian people: “Guards-mines”, “Sevastopol”, “Walking through the Don”, etc. In the summer of the year, Plotnichenko returns to Krasnodar, continues to study at a music school, participates in Shefa concerts in military hospitals.

The songs of the young composer are fame. After the war ended in the Gorky City Park, a solemn meeting of the winning warriors was arranged, where the Song of Kubank was made by G. This song turned out to be happy: it was published in the newspaper Sovetskaya Kuban. On the pages of this newspaper and literary and art almanac “Kuban” new songs of the composer began to appear.

For a whole year, G. Plotnichenko worked as a chormaster of the State ensemble of the song and dance of the Kuban Cossacks. Acquaintance with the folk songs of the Kuban helped the composer more deeply understand the nature of folk choral singing, its artistic traditions, developing which, he determined his creative principle. The State Song and Dance Ensemble of the Kuban Cossacks also performed the works of G.

in the year, Plotnichenko's creative friendship with an amateur choral team of the Kuban Krasny Khutorok, which visited concerts in Moscow, ensued. They wrote about the choir in the newspapers, talked on the radio, his songs were recorded on gramples. Prominent metropolitan musicians A. Sveshnikov, A. Novikov met with the team. From the year, Plotnichenko worked as the artistic director of the song and dance ensemble of the North Caucasus Military District.

During this period, he turns to larger musical forms. The suite “Return”, the choirs “My Kuban”, “Corporal on vacation” are created. The new stage in the creative activity of Plotnichenko is work as the artistic director of the Krasnodar State Philharmonic. And in the year, Grigory Maksimovich was invited to manage the Department of Music and Singing at the Krasnodar State Pedagogical Institute, since the year he was the dean of the Musical and Pedagogical Faculty, in the year of Plotnichenko was awarded the title of associate professor.

Grigory Maksimovich skillfully combined teaching and creative work with public work: from the year - a member of the board of the Union of Composers of the USSR, from the year - a member of the board of the Union of Composers of the RSFSR, a member of the Presidium of the All -Russian Church Society and the Chairman of the Board of the Chorovoy Society in the Kuban.

The versatile activity of Grigory Maksimovich nourished his work. In addition to songs and choirs, the composer writes the ballads “I am a bakery”, “Ballad of Svetlana”, the romances “Moonlit at night”, “birch”, “Milk young” dropped. He wrote music for 15 performances of a puppet theater. Among them is the “Crystal shoe”, “at the pike attraction”, “Ivan is a peasant son”.

Nevertheless, choral creativity is the main thing that the composer devoted himself to. And the first choral song, which deserves special attention, is “Kuban Blue Nights” to the verses of S. Kuban art critic V.Shcheglov called it "the musical symbol of our native land." In popularity, the melody of this choral song is simple. For the song emitted by the song, they fell in love with her, the song received a good and long life.

They were also loved by the performers and listeners to the “oak” for the verses of M. Isakovsky, the “green outskirts” for the poems of N. Rylenkov, “clouds” to the poems of I. Varavva, “Favorite Song” for the verses of M. Lisyansky and others. Most of Plotnichenko’s songs are inextricably linked with Kuban. Their theme is diverse: there are lyrical, comic and patriotic. A special place in the work of the composer was occupied by Novorossiysk, about which he created the song-chorus cycle “Macs on the Low Earth”.

Grigory Maksimovich had great creative plans, he loved to work with the Kuban poets S. Khokhlov, I. Varavva, there were thoughts to write new songs to V. Bakaldin’s poems, he created the choir poem “Eternal Glory of the Obelisk” for his poems. A poem was written in the year - in the last days of the author’s life. There was a feeling that he wrote this requiem, see also:!

This is not Krasnodar Bazaar is not Krasnodar. The headquarters of the 9th Soviet Army and the Caucasus Front. Artemovsk, year Kropotkin. North Caucasus Front. Dynamo in the park, year. Primorsko-Akhtarsky district. Combines and horses with a cart. Water station "Vodnik", filming the film "Gloomy Morning", October 2 Yeisk. Monument to V. Lenin on the street. Karl Marx at the machine -building plant, the year Park of the city is not Krasnodar.

Fedorovsky hydroelectric station, year. This is not Krasnodar "behind the fountain or the terrace of the central staircase or the entrance to the sector, but yet without knowing whether the fountain was there. The year says that the city park, but only a year is accurate. Maybe the coast. I remember the cold, rainy March. I'll clarify the year. Plotnichenko is not indicated. It would not be good to clarify.