Biktashev Valery Nadirovich

Main article: History of music in Russia

Biography

Valery Nadirovich Biktashev is a Russian composer, born on December 15, 1963 in the village of Tokarevka (Republic of Tatarstan). At the age of 11, he began to study music. He graduated from the Temirtaus College of Music (Kazakhstan) as a pianist. As a student at a music school, he became a laureate of the 1st prize of the piano competition of the Republic of Tatarstan.

Subsequently, he graduated from the Russian Academy of Music. Gnesins (Moscow) as a pianist, and then as a composer. After graduation, V.N. Biktashev worked as an accompanist in the vocal class at the Gnesinsky School, the Russian Academy of Music named after Gnesins, Institute of Contemporary Art, Choral Academy named after Sveshnikov, Moscow State Institute of Music named after Schnittke. And it was with vocal music that Valery Biktashev began his career as a composer.

By order of guitarist Dmitry Tatarkin and in collaboration with him began to write for the guitar. These are primarily 3 guitar concerts:

• "Roman is a fantasy" (for guitar with a chamber orchestra),
• "Love Story" (with symphony orchestra),
• "Concerto - Ballad" (with organ), and
• the poem "Orpheus" and the cycle "Confessions" (for 1st, 2nd and 4th guitars).

Since 2002, collaborates with the orchestra of Russian folk instruments under the direction of N.N. Nekrasov. Vocal and instrumental music Valery Biktashev repeatedly sounded on the radio on the waves "Orpheus" and "People's Radio."

Main works

• "Sad Songs" - vocal cycle with words by A. Block (11 romances)
• "Love Songs" - vocal cycle with words by A. Block (6 romances)
• Vocal cycle with words by O. Mandelstam (6 romances)
• Vocal cycle for the words of A. Pushkin (4 romances)
• "My Heart" - vocal cycle for the words of S. Yesenin (6 songs)
• Vocal cycle for words by M. Tsvetaeva (6 romances)
• "I repeat your name" - a romance with the words of G. Lorca
• "Shagane" - a romance with the words of S. Yesenin
• "To Natasha," "Dedication" - romances to the words of A.S. Pushkin
• "Giraffe," "Forest" - romances to the words of A. Gumilyov
• "Ave Maria" - duet to the text of the canonical prayer accompanied by piano
• "Divination" - a duet with the words of A. Fet

Operas:

• "Hamlet" (based on Shakespeare's tragedy of the same name)
• "Little Prince" (according to Exuperi)
• "The Living Dead" (according to Odoevsky's short story)

Vocal and symphonic poem "Diary of the Poet" with words by B. Pasternak "The Ship Is a Ghost" - Symphony with a Solo Trumpet

3 guitar concerts:

• "Roman is a fantasy" (with a chamber orchestra)
• "Love Story" (with symphony orchestra)
• "Concert - Ballad" (with organ)

The poem "Orpheus" - for guitar "Confessions" cycle for 1st, 2nd and 4th guitars

"Hamlet" - a poem for cello and piano "On Tenderness" - Fantasy for Cello and Chamber Orchestra

"Adagio," "Reflection" - for the orchestra of Russian folk instruments Concert for domra and orchestra of Russian folk instruments.