Grodberg Biography

Harry Grodberg organ of Moscow Philharmonic with a regret reports that in the year of his life the legendary Russian organist Harry Yakovlevich Grodberg died. Farewell to the outstanding musician will take place in the concert hall named after P. Tchaikovsky on November 14 Monday from to the art of Harry Grodberg - an unsurpassed enthusiast of the Russian organ Renaissance - has become a unique phenomenon of Russian musical culture.

A student of Alexander Borisovich Goldenweiser and Alex Moscow Philharmonic with a regret reports that in the year of his life the legendary Russian organist Harry Yakovlevich Grodberg died. Pupil of Alexander Borisovich Goldenweiser and Alexander Fedorovich Gedike - the founders of famous pianistic and organ schools - Harry Yakovlevich Grodberg continued and developed in his work the great classical traditions of the Moscow Conservatory, becoming an original interpreter of not only Bakhov’s creativity, but also the works of Mozart, Mendelssohn, Frank, Rhinberger, Rynberger Saint-Sansa and other composers of past eras.

His monumental software cycles were devoted to the music of composers of the twentieth century - Shostakovich, Khachaturian, Slonim, Pirumov, Nirenburg, Tariverdiev. The organist gave his first solo concert in the year. Soon after this brilliant debut, the young musician on the recommendation of Svyatoslav Richter and Nina Dorliak became the soloist of the Moscow Philharmonic.

Harry Grodberg performed with the largest orchestras and choirs of our country. Harry Grodberg’s interpretation talent was akin to the composer.

He was always able to search for new executive solutions. The unexplored art of playing the organ on the organ allowed to fully reveal to the improvisational gift, without which the artist’s being is unthinkable. Harry Grodberg belongs to the galaxy of those enlightened and energetic musical figures, thanks to which Great Russia has turned into a country where organ music causes more and more interest among a numerous audience.

In the years of the last century, Harry Grodberg became the most active and qualified expert, and then the deputy chairman of the organ council under the Ministry of Culture of the USSR. In the country then there were only 7 current bodies of 3 of them - in Moscow. For several decades, more than the organs of prestigious Western firms in dozens of cities of the country have been erected.

Harry Grodberg used expert assessments and professional advice of Harry Grodberg, involved in the creation of tools in a number of domestic cultural centers. It was Grodberg, for the first time representing the organs of the musical audience, that gave them a ticket to life. The first “swallow” of the Russian organ spring was the giant body of the Czech company Riger Closs, installed in the concert hall.

Tchaikovsky in the year. The initiator of his subsequent reconstructions in the years was the outstanding musician-educator Harry Grodberg. The last act of organ construction, before the sad exit from the state ordering system, was the magnificent organ of the same “Reiger Closs”, erected in Tver in the year. Nowadays, the annual March festival is held here, dedicated to the birthday of I.

Bach and established G. This is the only large -scale Bakhovsky festival in Russia. Mikhail Tversky ”, an honorary sign of the head of Tver“ For Merit in front of the city ”, the title of Honorary Citizen of the city of Tver by another musical offer of the great composer from the maestro, was the festival“ Bach service ”, which is held on the initiative of Harry Grodberg in Kaliningrad.

Then it has been the years since the death of the composer. Therefore, the festival was dedicated to the Day of Memory - July 28. Since then, traditionally on this day, the international music festival "Bach service" ends with an organ concert, which was given by the founder of the festival, maestro Harry Grodberg. The largest propagandist and interpreter of the work of Bach, Harry Grodberg became an honorary member of the Bakhovsky and Gendelev societies in Germany, was a member of the jury of the International Bakho competition in Leipzig.

Famous firms of the grames of Russia, America, Germany and other states produce numerous discs of Harry Grodberg. In the year, the circulation of the gramplasts of the company "Melody" reached a record for organists - one and a half million copies. In the year, Radio of Russia published a radio review “Half a century in the service of Bach”-27 radio interviews with Harry Grodberg-and also carried out a unique project together with the German Wave radio to produce the presentation circulation of compact Disks “Harry Grodberg plays, which included the works of Bakha, Khachaturian, Lafebure-Vel, Ducken, Dacina Gilman.

Harry Yakovlevich took part in the cultural program, accompanied in the year the meeting of the heads of the state of Angel Merkel and V. Putin in Tomsk. Harry Grodberg is the most devoted participant in the international festival "Stars on Lake Baikal" under the leadership of Denis Matsuev. Here, in the Hall of the Irkutsk Philharmonic, 35 years ago the first organ of Harry Yakovlevich’s disposition was installed in the city.When, in February, Harry Grodberg opened in Samara a unique concert body created by his disposition by the German company Rudolf von Bekrat, in one of his three concerts, the first symphony for the organ with the orchestra of Alexander Gilman, a genuine masterpiece of the revived Grodberg of the second half of the XIX century, was sounded.

At the end of July, according to the project of the Harry Grodberg disposition, a large organ of the Austrian company Rigelbau was solemnly opened in the Church of St. Francis in Klaipeda - the city where Harry Yakovlevich was born. Francis of Assisian in the city of Klaipeda. " Today it is one of the best organs of Lithuania, which allows you to perform the most difficult works.

In September, Harry Grodberg took part in his high service to the art of G. in September on the occasion of the anniversary of the P. Tchaikovsky concert hall, the disposition of which was carried out under his direct leadership. In January, he was awarded the Order of Friendship for high achievements in art. Photos of the quote Grodberg had an amazing success of the audience, which consisted most of the youth, who filled the large hall of the Milan Conservatory Corriere Della Sera Grodberg with inspiration and complete dedication, performed a large program dedicated to the work of Bach.

He created a magical sound interpretation, established close spiritual contact with the public IL Giorno, no one with such skill is performed by Bach as the Moscow organist Westfalenpost Missing:.