Serafim Tulikov
Serafim Tulikov Серафим Серге́евич Туликов | |
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Background information | |
Birth name | Serafim Grigoryevich Boboedov |
Born | Kaluga, Russian Empire | 7 July 1914
Died | January 29, 2004 Moscow, Russia | (aged 89)
Genres | song, instrumental works, vocal cycles, romances, operetta |
Occupation(s) | composer, film composer, pianist |
Instrument(s) | Piano |
Years active | 1937–2004 |
Website | www |
Serafim Sergeyevich Tulikov (
Early years
Serafim Tulikov was born in
A promising composer
During the mid-1940s Serafim Tulikov composed a range of melodious lyrical-patriotic songs which became quite popular, for instance, "The Kursk Nightingale" ("Курский соловей"), with lyrics by
National fame came to Tulikov in 1947, when he composed "We Are for Peace" ("Мы - за мир!"), with lyrics by
Throughout most of the 1950s, Tulikov continued to compose for all sorts of official ideological occasions, including Communist Party of the Soviet Union congresses, youth festivals, and professional conventions. Tulikov's style of optimism found its expression in such songs as "This is Us, the Youth!" ("Это мы, молодежь")(lyrics by Lev Oshanin), written on the occasion of the 5th World Festival of Youth and Students held in Warsaw in 1955, "My Beloved Motherland" ("Родина любимая моя") (lyrics by Andrei Dostal), dedicated to the 40th Anniversary of the October Revolution in 1957. With time, Tulikov's style of mass-marching songs had undergone some substantial changes. In the beginning his marches were dynamic and energetic, strongly influenced by the mass songs of Isaak Dunayevsky, but by the late 1950s, Tulikov's marches became more solemn, more static and more hymnal, as in "My Beloved Motherland".
In his more lyrical songs of his early career, Tulikov developed his style of heartfelt and quiet melodies. Such songs include "My Love, my Life" ("Жизнь моя, любовь моя") (lyrics by Anton Prishelets), "I Love You, my Sea" ("Я люблю тебя, море") (lyrics by Anatoly Salnikov), "Above the Moscow River" ("Над Москвою-рекой") (lyrics by Lev Kondyrev), and "Golden Altai" ("Алтай золотой") (lyrics by Tsezar Solodar). The composer also made his contribution to a subgenre of the Soviet song, the army song. He authored a song dedicated to the
In reflecting on the sources of inspiration for his songs, Serafim Tulikov later confessed that it came mostly from the reminiscences of his homeland, Kaluga, and most of the elements within the songs were present in Kaluga. In the early 1960s, Tulikov would write a song dedicated to Kaluga, properly entitled "The Town of My Youth" ("Город юности моей") (lyrics by Mikhail Pliatskovsky), a sweet and unassuming yet sincere and heartfelt song.
During Khrushchev's
Mature phase
Many of the older generation of Soviet composers did not feel particularly comfortable after the onset of the television age in the 1960s. Serafim Tulikov adjusted himself, and established himself as one of the leading and most popular Soviet songwriters.)
Tulikov continued to contribute mass songs dedicated to various important events in Soviet history and politics. His song "To the Distant Planets!" (lyrics by Yuri Polukhin) was a work of optimism designed to celebrate the USSR's technological breakthroughs. Unsurprisingly, it was written in the wake of Yuri Gagarin's first space journey in 1961. In 1964, Tulikov's only opera, Barankin, bud' chelovekom, premiered in Moscow.
In the late 1960s Tulikov began to compose songs with overtly neo-
Tulikov continued to write songs dedicated to the
In the early 1960s Tulikov wrote a very successful song about Moscow, "I sing of you, my Moscow" (lyrics by Yuri Polukhin). The phrase "Moscow, your fame is flying on the wings of your glory all over the world! Moscow, you are the heart of my Motherland!" became legendary.
Assessment
As the Soviet Union unravelled in the late 1980s, Serafim Tulikov found himself increasingly isolated to deal with the change. Tulikov's traditionalism, as well as his penchant for slow-flowing and sweet lyrical tunes, was sharply at odds with the newly fashionable avant-garde and radical rejection of harmony and tranquility in music, in favor of cacophony and wild rhythms. Tulikov gradually faded away from public prominence. He died in retirement in 2004. Some of his musical legacy has been resurrected by the lovers of Soviet music. However, the majority of what has been reissued and revived has been Tulikov's most non-political, light lyrical music of the 1960s-70s.[5]
References
- ^ Заложение памятной звезды Серафима Туликова
- ^ "Композитор Серафим Туликов — биография". Archived from the original on 2013-12-07. Retrieved 2013-02-11.
- ^ "ТУЛИКОВ в энциклопедии музыки". Archived from the original on 2015-12-22. Retrieved 2013-02-11.
- ^ "Композитор Серафим Туликова — список произведений". Archived from the original on 2013-12-07. Retrieved 2013-02-11.
- ^ Детская школа искусств № 2
External links
- Biography on the website Yandex. Dictionary
- Honorary Citizens of Kaluga
- Туликова А. С. Жизнь, прожитая не зря. Личность и творчество композитора Серафима Туликова. - Москва: Издательский Дом Тончу, 2014. - 560с. , ил. ISBN 978-5-91215-078-4