ALEXEI KONSTANTINOVICH LEBEDEV’S 100TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION IN HIS HOMETOWN OF DANKOV, CALLED THE CENTURY OF MUSIC BY THE ORGANIZERS.
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The music school in the town of Dankov is named in honor of Alexei Konstantinovich Lebedev.
Solemn celebration of the 100th anniversary of A.K. Lebedev was held in the House of Culture of the town of Dankov.
MOSCOW TEAM OF THE CENTURY OF MUSIC
THE ENTIRE MOSCOW TEAM OF THE CENTURY OF MUSIC.
From left to right: Natalia Bogdanova, Deputy Director of the Municipal Autonomous Cultural Institution of the Dankov Municipal District; Ivan Egorov, student of the Moscow State College of Musical Performance named after F. Chopin; Vladimir Pavlovich Starkov, teacher of the Khalilov Military Music School; Mikhail Uzhilovsky, artist of the All-Russian Youth Symphony Orchestra conducted by Yuri Bashmet; Karina Shagova, pianist, concertmaster of Fyodor Shagov’s tuba class.
The solemn meeting and laying of flowers took place in front of the house where the Lebedevs lived and on which a memorial plaque in memory of the Lebedevs was placed.
Memorial service at the grave of Lebedev father and son…
Master class for children of the ensemble of the A.K. Lebedev School of Music “WE ARE JAZZ”.
Grand opening of the celebration of the Century of MUSIC.
The municipal brass band of the town of Dankov took part in the gala concert.
Orchestra of the K.N. Igumnov College of Arts of the city of Lipetsk.
The ensemble of the A.K. Lebedev Music School “We are from Jazz” participated in the concert.
Ivan Egorov performed three works by Alexei Lebedev: “Lullaby”, “Gavotte”, “Concert Allegro”. Piano part Shagova Karina. Class of teacher Fyodor Shagov.
Mikhail Uzhilovsky performed by A. Lebedev Concerto No. 1 for tuba and orchestra. Arranged for tuba and piano by the author. Piano part Karina Shagova class of teacher Fyodor Shagov.
Vladimir Starkov told the audience what Alexei Lebedev was as a teacher and a man and performed “Fairy Tale” by A. Lebedev.
All participants of the Moscow team VEK MUSIKA were awarded with a letter of thanks from the Head of the Dankov district. Including yours truly, Alexei Levashkin.
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LEBEDEV FAMILY
Famous people of the Lipetsk region
Konstantin Alexandrovich Lebedev
(1892-1966)
Father of Alexei Konstantinovich Lebedev.
Surgeon K. A. Lebedev was born on May 23, 1892 in the village of Mosty, Ryazhsky uyezd, Ryazan province, in the family of a priest.
The Lebedev family had been priests since the beginning of the 17th century. His father, Alexander (Lebedev), was a priest in the church of the village of Mosty, Ryazhsky uyezd, Ryazan province. A year after Konstantin’s birth in 1893, his father died, and the boy’s childhood was not easy.
Konstantin Lebedev graduated from the Ryazan Theological Seminary. But the dream of becoming a doctor-surgeon did not leave him, and he entered the medical faculty of Tomsk University.
Having received his diploma with honors, K. A. Lebedev was immediately mobilized into the army as an attending regimental doctor.
In November 1917 he was demobilized and returned to Dankov. Since 1918, K. A. Lebedev began to work as a district doctor in the Dankov district hospital. In 1919 he became head of the surgical department, replacing the legendary colleague A. Semenovsky, who died of typhoid fever.
In the summer of the same year he married Tatiana Vasilievna Golubeva. She was also the daughter of a priest, graduated from the mathematics department of the Physics and Mathematics Faculty of the Moscow Higher Women’s Courses, worked as a teacher of mathematics at school No. 1 in Dankov. Dankov.
On the very first day of the Great Patriotic War K. A. Lebedev was mobilized to the front, served as a leading surgeon of the evacuation hospital, was awarded the Order of the Red Star (1943) and the Order of the Patriotic War of the 2nd degree (1945).
Konstantin Alexandrovich was considered the best surgeon of the army, his word was decisive at medical consiliums. He returned home to Dankov at the end of 1945, having taken part in the war with Japan.
Konstantin Alexandrovich worked more than 15 years as the chief doctor of Dankov hospital. He had to deal not only with medical practice, but also with administrative and economic issues. In 1951 K.A. Lebedev was awarded the title “Honored Doctor of the RSFSR”.
K.A. Lebedev died on February 17, 1966.
Konstantin Alexandrovich had three children:
Son Vladimir Konstantinovich Lebedev (1922-2008) – scientist in the field of welding technology.
Son Alexei Konstantinovich Lebedev (1924-1993) – composer, professor at the Tchaikovsky Moscow Conservatory, who wrote the first textbook for tuba players, “The School of Playing the Tuba”.
Daughter Nina Konstantinovna Berdinskikh (1932-2008) – doctor of medical sciences.
On July 28, 2016 in Dankov on Uritskogo Street, 26, on the house where he lived from 1925 to 1966, the opening of a memorial plaque in memory of the Lebedev family took place.
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ALEKSEY KONSTANTINOVICH LEBEDEV
ALEXEY LEBEDEV IN HIS YOUTH
ALEXEY LEBEDEV DURING HIS YEARS AT THE BOLSHOI THEATER
ALEXEY KONSTANTINOVICH LEBEDEV PROFESSOR, COMPOSER
Tuba performer, teacher, composer. Professor. Participant of the Great Patriotic War. Awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of the first degree and medals. Member of the USSR (Russian Federation) Composers Union. Virtuoso, composer and teacher. In 1998, he was awarded the highest prize of the International Society “TUBA” (World Brotherhood Tubist Association) (posthumously). Years of teaching at the Conservatory: 1950 – 1993.
Biography:
He was born on December 9, 1924 in Dankov, Lipetsk region. His father was an honored doctor of Russia, a surgeon, his mother was a teacher of mathematics. From the age of 12 he studied piano. In high school he led an amateur brass band of the Dankov Culture House. In August 1942, after studying at an infantry school, he was at the front and after a severe wound in 1943 was transferred to Moscow for further service.
In 1943-1945 he served as a military musician and at the same time studied at the Moscow Ippolitov Music School. M. M. Ippolitov-Ivanov Moscow Music School (tuba and music theory class). In 1949 he graduated from the Moscow Conservatory (class of V. A. Scherbinin) and then entered the faculty of composition (creative), where he studied for 3 years.
As a student, he wrote the Concerto for tuba and piano, which he played at the final examination, as well as the Concerto allegro for tuba and piano (both works have been published in the USSR and abroad).
Lebedev’s name is inscribed on the marble plaque of outstanding graduates of the Moscow Conservatory (for 1949).
In 1998, the T.U.B.A. (The World Brotherhood of Tubists Association) honored him with the T.U.B.A.’s most prestigious honor, the Lifetime Achievement Award. “This posthumous award was given in recognition of A. Lebedev’s critical contributions to the cause of tuba during his lifetime” (see Tuba Journal, Vol. 26, No. 1, 1998).
DANKOVSKY WIND BAND, 1942. Second from left in the top row Alexei Lebedev with tenor. Photo courtesy of A. Ovchinnikov, to whom it was given by A.K. Lebedev’s widow, Kun Vera Vladimirovna.
Author of textbooks:
– “School of playing the tuba” (Moscow, 1984)
– “24 etudes for tuba” and others.
To create the textbook part of the “School” A. K. Lebedev attracted modern composers: N. Rakov, V. Kikta, K. Volkov, T. Smirnova, V. Strukov and G. Dmitriev, and also composed his own works.
Pupils:
During more than forty years of work, more than fifty students have graduated from his tuba class, and more than one hundred students have graduated from his chamber ensemble class. Many of them became laureates of All-Union competitions of wind and percussion instrument performers.
Concert activity:
From 1950-1967. Lebedev worked at the State Academic Bolshoi Theater (GABT) of the USSR as a tuba soloist; participated in performances and recordings of the GABT brass quintet consisting of T. Dokshitser, Y. Gandel, V. Polekh, M. Zeynalov and A. Lebedev. Together with the Moscow Youth Orchestra (conducted by K. Kondrashin) he participated in the Youth Festivals in Hungary (1949) and Poland (1955).
Compositions:
A. K. Lebedev’s compositions are included in the programs of All-Union and International competitions, and are performed in solo programs.
Possessing an outstanding talent as a composer, he enriched the tuba repertoire with a large number of arrangements and arrangements of classical pieces, as well as original works for brass ensemble.
Already in his student years he wrote Concerto No. 1 (1947) and “Concerto Allegro” (1949) for tuba and piano. They were published in 1950 and 1956 (Muzgiz) and later reissued several times.
In 1986 he composed the “Concerto No. 2” for tuba and piano (published in Germany posthumously in 1997). He also composed works and made arrangements for brass ensembles.
A special place in his creative work is occupied by composing music for songs (period 1950-1970s). He wrote more than sixty songs – formation, children’s and lyrical. More than thirty of them were published. Many songs were performed on the All-Union radio, in concerts.
List of compositions and scientific and methodological works by A. Lebedev
– School of playing the tuba ch. 1. Moscow, Music. 1974, 1984
– School of playing the tuba part 2 (see also Nos. 10, 11, 12). Moscow, Musica. 1975, 1986
– Concerto No. 1 for tuba and piano. M., 1950, 1980, 1954, 1995 (Muzgiz, “Music”, Hofmeister, Leipzig).
– Concert Allegro for tuba and piano. M., 1956, 1980, 1997 (“Muzyka”, Hofmeister)
– Concerto No. 2 for tuba and piano. M., 1997 Hofmeister
– Etudes for tuba. M., 1998 Hofmeister
– Classical Pieces (Arrangement for tuba and piano of works by old authors: J. Haydn, C. F. F. Hofmeister. Haydn, C. F. Bach, Fr. Veracini, J. Senaye, L. Boccherini, G. F. Handel). M., “Music”. 1988
– Piece for French horn “Fairy Tale”: “School for French horn”. M., Muzgiz. 1958
– Revision of Link’s Sonatina for tuba and piano. M., “Muzyka”. 1977
– Pieces (Lullaby and Gavotte), 26 etudes, exercises: “School …”
– Arrangement for tuba and piano of works by Soviet composers (B. Tchaikovsky, G. Sviridov, R. Shchedrin); S. Barber: “School …”
– Arrangement for tuba and piano of works by Soviet and foreign composers (A. Gedike, N. Myaskovsky, D. Shostakovich, S. Prokofiev, A. Corelli, L. Beethoven, J. Brahms, G. Handel, K. Gluck, B. Bartok): “School of …”
– Concerto No. 1, Concerto No. 2 for tuba and piano (author’s instrumentation for tuba and symphony orchestra). 1995 Hofmeister, Leipzig (out of print)
– Works for tuba and piano, ensembles, etudes, arrangements. S. I. Taneyev Library, MSC 1950-1989.
