Eugen Doga

Evgeniy Doga is one of the most talented and beloved composers of the Soviet era. A native of Moldova, he became incredibly popular in the USSR and beyond. The talented composer has been awarded many titles and awards. His waltz from the film "My affectionate and gentle animal" has been recognized by UNESCO as one of the main musical masterpieces of the 20th century.

Eugene Doga's birthday is March 1, 1937. His birth coincided with the beginning of the Moldavian holiday "Mertsyshor". The birthplace of the future composer is the village of Mokra, Rybnitsa region (present-day Transnistria), located in a picturesque lowland with a small rivulet flowing through it. Not far away are the famous codru trees with giant oaks, spreading maples and slender ash trees.

The beauty of the surrounding nature attracted and beckoned, giving birth to creative sprouts in the child's soul. The boy grew up without a father, since he did not return from the front. Together with his peers, he disappeared on the street, in the spring he collected delicate, sour-tasting sorrel leaves, from which my mother cooked delicious spring borscht. In the post-war years, along with berries and occasional mushrooms, this was one of the available foodstuffs that saved a family from hunger.

A vivid childhood memory was the performances of the folk music orchestra and the orchestra from Chisinau in their village club. The symphony orchestra was so large that it did not fit on the stage. A man stood in front of the musicians and threatened them with a stick. It was amazing that the orchestra played, but nobody danced. Children approached, stealthily touched instruments that seemed to them a fantastic curiosity from a distant and incomprehensible world.

Soon this world will enter the life of Zhenya, who in 1951, after a seven-year school, without prior preparation, enters a music school in Chisinau and learns to play the cello. In 1955 he graduated from college and entered the conservatory. From 1955 to 1960 he studied and worked at the same time on the Moldavian radio (1957-1962). Paralysis of the hand puts an end to the career of a cellist. Doga entered the 1st year of the Conservatory again and studied composition for another 5 years (1960-1965).

An aspiring composer secretly composes something and writes it down in a notebook. His first work "New Year's Song" was played on the radio on January 1, 1957 at a concert by the orchestra conducted by Shiko Aranov, performed by a children's choir. The second song "White Flower of the Garden" was the debut of a fellow student and future opera diva Maria Biesu on Moldovan TV.

At the Conservatory, he continues to compose, studies music theory, and takes a course in conducting. With vocals, Evgeny does not add up, at the very first lesson his vocal abilities were described as natural voicelessness. During his studies, he works a lot, is engaged in orchestration of works by Khachaturian, Shostakovich, Grieg, Schubert, Moldovan composers, including semi-professional ones.

In 1963 he wrote the first string quartet. For two years after the conservatory, the certified composer does not compose anything. During this period, he is fond of music theory. The result of this hobby is the textbook that his students studied. In 1962-1967. he teaches composition at his own school and music theory at another educational institution.

He returned to composition under the influence of his older colleagues such as Emil Loteanu, Ion Ungureanu and Gheorghe Voda. The composer turns to the origins of folk melody and melody, having tried dodecaphony and other directions before. He is attracted by serious music, but accessible to a wide range of listeners.

In his creative career, music of various genres and styles. Evgeny Doga is the author of operas and ballets, symphonic poems for chorus and orchestra, musical comedies, cantatas for children's groups, overtures, works for violin and piano, string quartets, suites, waltzes, romances and song compositions. He writes music for stage, theatrical performances, cinema, composes plays for various musical instruments.

Since 1972 he has been touring the country and foreign countries. His performances are greeted with thunderous applause at home and abroad. The works of Evgeny Doga are performed by many outstanding musicians such as Yuri Medyanik and others. His music is in the repertoire of famous ensembles under the direction of renowned conductors. His concerts are held in the best halls in Moscow, Leningrad, Chisinau, Bucharest, etc.

In the piggy bank of Doga's work, a huge niche is made up of music for films, which he begins to write since 1967. In his creative career, there are more than two hundred films. A significant event was the work on the film directed by E. Loteanu "Lautara". The film about Moldovan musicians, whose music was familiar to Eugene from childhood, received prizes at various festivals.

The film "My White City" (1971) became the final step for Sofia Rotaru to enter the big stage. With her, she received the main prize at the Bulgarian competition "Golden Orpheus" and performed in the final of the "Song of the Year". The musical composition written for the film “Chisinau, Chisinau” became the official anthem of the Moldovan capital.

The next outstanding work - "Tabor goes to heaven" (1976). The film, which tells about gypsy love, was also awarded prizes at international film festivals.

A significant event in his career is the film of the same Lotianu "Anna Pavlova". The amazing music for the film about the same amazing and amazing fate of the legendary Russian ballerina touched the souls of ordinary people and was highly appreciated by professionals.

One of his remarkable films was the soundtrack to the film Mercedes Leaving the Chase (1980). A huge number of films were the result of his cooperation with many film studios of the former USSR, television and creative studios and associations, with the Central TV of the USSR State Television and Radio Broadcasting, as well as famous Soviet film directors.

Thanks to the waltz, written by Doga, the film "My affectionate and gentle animal" and its creators gained worldwide fame. Surprisingly, the famous waltz was improvised and created by the composer in one night during the filming that took place in the Valuevo estate in the Moscow region.

The waltz has gained immense popularity: it sounded during a massive performance of gymnasts at the 1980 Olympics, at the opening of the 2014 Olympics, is used by choreographers and athletes in ballet and dance shows, it is performed by professional and street musicians, newlyweds dance to it on their wedding day. Ronald Reagan named it "Waltz of the Year".

Doga's biography is filled with events related not only to musical activities, but also in public. He is a member of the Union of Composers and Cinematographers of the Moldavian SSR and the USSR, a member of the board of the Ministry of Culture of Moldova and the Committee on Lenin and State Prizes. Twice he was a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Moldavian SSR and a people's deputy of the USSR, he is a member of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova.

Eugene got married at the age of 25. The decision to marry came on the third day after they met. Natasha was an engineer by profession, in her he saw a woman whose image was hidden in the depths of his soul. In 1966, his wife gave birth to a daughter, Viorica, and in 2001, a grandson, Dominik, appeared.

Now the family lives in a large house in the center of Chisinau, Eugene often visits the Moscow "odnushka" in Krylatskoye.

In 2012, Doga's anniversary concerts were held in the largest halls in Russia, Moldova, Kazakhstan and Romania. In 2014, his waltz "Gramophone" is performed in the Ateneum Roman hall at the Romanian Academy. In 2016, the composer continues to be active in his creative and social activities.

In 2017, Evgeny Doga has an anniversary - the composer turns 80 years old. In the Kremlin Palace, on the main stage of Russia, a large festive concert dedicated to the composer's birthday will take place.

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