Dmitry Mikhailovich Tsyganov - Soviet and Russian violinist, music teacher, winner of the Stalin Prize and People's Artist of the USSR.
Childhood and youth
Dmitry Tsyganov is a famous Soviet musician from Saratov, where he was born in the early spring of 1903. It was the father, himself a famous violinist in tsarist Russia, who instilled in his son a love of music. From an early age, Dmitry mastered playing the piano, violin, and then, from the age of 8, he was educated at the local conservatory. The family supported the boy's desire for musical creativity in everything.
In 1919, Tsyganov volunteered for the First World War, joining the Red Army, and his biography took a sharp turn. The very young musician took up the important position of accompanist of the Symphony Orchestra of the South-Eastern Front. After the war, he graduated from the Moscow Conservatory with a Gold Medal as one of its first graduate students and immediately began giving concerts.
Career
In the twenties in the field of classical music, the quartet was widely known to them. Beethoven, who toured not only in the USSR, but also abroad. The first violin and founder of this ensemble was Dmitry Tsyganov, and the collective existed until 1977. For the first time in the Soviet Union, music connoisseurs heard all ten Beethoven sonatas, Shimanovsky's "myths", works by Prokofiev and Medtner.
The legendary Shostakovich wrote his works, in particular the part of the first violin, under Tsyganov and dedicated his famous Twelfth String Quartet to the musician. In 1935, Tsyganov received a professorship for his outstanding work in the interpretation of quartet literature and began to combine concerts with teaching at the Moscow Conservatory.
During the Great Patriotic War, like many Soviet musicians, Dmitry Mikhailovich gave concerts in front of soldiers, visited the places of the hottest battles, and in 1946 he became a laureate of the Stalin Prize.
Pedagogical activity
After the war, Tsyganov took up pedagogical activities, made an enormous contribution to the formation of the Soviet violin school, and trained many outstanding Soviet violinists. Among his students are such famous names as Yuri Korchinsky, Sergei Grishchensky and others. For his merits, Dmitry received the title of Outstanding Artist of the Soviet Union.
In 1956, Tsyganov became the head of the violin department of the Moscow Conservatory, where he taught since the 1930s, and in 1981 transferred his powers to I. Bezrodny. Having become a professor, Dmitry did not abandon his concert activity, admiring violin connoisseurs in many countries of the world with his skill.
He was awarded the Commemorative Medal of the Belgian Queens Fabiola and Elizabeth, the title of Honorary Member of the Association of Violin Teachers of Japan. Tsyganov is the owner of many other awards and more than once became a member of the jury of international classical music competitions.
The violinist's students and his contemporaries say that there was nothing at all in world violin literature that Dmitry Mikhailovich, the owner of impeccable technique and the broadest erudition, did not know. The great musician, completely devoted to the world of art, had practically no personal life.
The virtuoso violinist died quietly in the spring of 1992. His modest grave, where students, relatives and admirers of the great violinist and teacher bring flowers, is located at the Vagankovskoye cemetery.
