And tents biography

Yes, that’s exactly! You probably thought that audiopirates have just appeared now? Audiopiracy is as old as popular music, and the waltz -written waltz “on the hills of Manchuria” at one time beat all records of popularity in Russia. We will tell you about this interesting person and his activities in more detail. Ilya Alekseevich Shatrov was born on April 1 of the year in the small city of Zemlyansk, in the Voronezh province, in the merchant family.

His father in his youth served a non-commissioned officer, and demobilized, engaged in trade. However, although Ilya’s commercial vein, as we later convinced, was present, he was drawn much more for the music than to trade, and from early childhood he learned to play many musical instruments. When Ilya Shatrov was 14 years old, his father died in a year, and the teenager was given to the raising of the trumpeters of the Grodno Hussar regiment to the platoon.

In the year, he graduated from the Warsaw Musical Institute in absentia, and became a capter, that is, a conductor of a military orchestra. Since the year, I. Shatrov served as a capmerist in the Moksha infantry regiment, and participated in the Russo-Japanese War of the years, which, as you know, did not take place in Russia and not in Japan, but in northeastern China-in the same manchuria, on the hills of which most of the personnel of this regiment died.

Returning from the war, in memory of the dead fellow soldiers, Ilya Shatrov in the years wrote a waltz “Moksha regiment on the hills of Manchuria”, better known under the abbreviated name “on the hills of Manchuria”. The waltz written by I. Shatrov received crazy popularity in the country, and as they would say now, "occupied the upper lines of the hit parades." This was used by cunning businessmen who began to make a waltz “on the hills of Manchuria” with giant circulations on gramophone records, without paying any fees to the author.

And when in the year Ilya Shatrov stied out that he, as it were, has the right to receive the author’s reward for the commercial use of his intellectual property, the audiopirates then made “Fintt with the ears”, and persuaded the dropmaster of the Kazan Cavalry Regiment S. Grigoryev to declare himself the real author of Waltz “on the snuffle of Manchuria”, and only Shatrova - just shall plagiarism.

Grigoryev even filed a statement on the involvement of I. Shatrov for a violation of copyright to criminal liability! However, the court figured out everything, and recognized Ilya Alekseevich Shatrov as a real author of the waltz "on the hills of Manchuria." The next step of the composer Ilya Shatrov, after confirming his authorship, was an attempt to force, with the help of the trial, the “Pirate” company “Siren Record” to pay him the author’s reward for the audio recordings of the gramplast with his music.

In the year, I. Shatrov won the trial in Moscow, and the court ordered the company Siren Record to pay the composer for 15 kopecks with each record sold. Thus, the first battle with audiopirates in the history of Russia ended in the full victory of the copyright holder. However, after the October Revolution of the year, the Bolsheviks committed it with such “bourgeois prejudices” as copyright, and not only did not pay I.

Shatrov’s fee for the use of his musical work, but went even further, and on the scraps of the waltz “on the hills of Manchuria” of the author did not point out that the music was not created at all that the music was not created a specific person, and the "creative genius of the Soviet people." However, despite this attitude of the new authorities to his brainchild, Ilya Shatrov joined the Red Army, it was the only way to continue to engage in military music, and served as a capter in various parts up to a year, when he retired at the age of x years !!!

Ilya Alekseevich Shatrov died on May 2 of the year, at the summer, and a white marble plate with a golden epitaph was installed on his grave in Tambov: “Guard Major, composer Ilya Alekseevich Shatrov. The creator of the waltz "on the hills of Manchuria." And this is the best monument to an outstanding composer who can be represented. Article on the topic:.