Grigoriy Gladkov

The driving force behind his creativity was boundless love for children. This wonderful source of inspiration allowed the composer Grigory Gladkov to enter the Guinness Book of Records in Russia as the author of the largest number of songs for children. Indeed, more than one young generation has grown up on his witty, kind, sunny compositions immortalized in his favorite Soviet cartoons "Plasticine Crow", "Last Year's Snow Was Falling", "About Vera and Anfisa", "Pilot Brothers" and many others.

Grigory Vasilievich Gladkov was born on July 18, 1953 in Khabarovsk. Father Vasily Grigorievich Gladkov is from Bryansk, mother Sofya Tikhonovna Gladkova is from the Belgorod region. The boy was named after his grandfather, a hero of the Second World War, the leader of the partisan movement, who was shot in front of his son.

Little Grisha took his first steps towards creativity under the tutelage of his mother. She worked as the head of a nursery and as a teacher tried to comprehensively develop her son. I bought him children's books, records. Together they wrote scripts for matinees. Poems of Marshak, Chukovsky, cheerful, lively music sounded in the house.

Then Grisha entered a music school in the accordion class and began to help his mother in organizing nursery events, accompanied on the instrument. And he played as he could: if he forgot the notes, he could replace it with a fragment from another composition. The main thing is that the most real musical improvisation was born.

In early childhood, the family moved from Khabarovsk to their father's homeland - in Bryansk. Here the boy went to school, and spent all the holidays in the village with his relatives. Grigory chose his future profession on the advice of his parents, and entered the Bryansk Institute of Transport Engineering. Although he was already composing music and poetry from the age of 15, improving more and more in bard art, he created the Blue Poppies group.

In 1975 Gladkov received a diploma of a design engineer. But the passion for music, which grew stronger during his youth on the work of the Beatles and Vladimir Vysotsky, did not leave the guy. And at the end of the 70s he moved to Leningrad, where he entered the music school in the guitar and music theory classes, and then at the Leningrad State Institute of Culture (now the St. Petersburg State University of Culture and Arts).

A year before graduation from the institute, in 1983, Gladkov moved to Moscow. This event was preceded by the success of the cartoon "Plasticine Crow" (1981), created by the animation director Alexander Tatarsky. The music for it was written by Grigory Gladkov to verses by Alexander Kushner ("Song of Pictures"), Ovsey Driz translated by Roman Sef ("Game"), Eduard Uspensky ("Maybe a crow").

Tatarsky was the first to move to the capital from Kiev, and then he invited Gladkov from Leningrad. In a successful tandem, they create a new work Last Year's Snow (1983), also shot in the style of "plasticine" animation. But if "The Crow" turned out to be a funny children's cartoon, then "Snow" became a cult satirical fairy tale for adults, the text of which was sold into quotes. Enormous popularity came to Gladkov.

One of them was an invitation to act in films. In 1984 the musical film "Tales of the Old Wizard" based on the work of Charles Perrault about the sleeping princess was released. Gladkov not only acted as the composer of the picture, but also played the role of a minstrel, and performed his own vocal parts.

In 1986-1988, the composer wrote music for a series of puppet cartoons "About Vera and Anfisa", which all Soviet children fell in love with. The soundtracks of your favorite cartoons were songs to the poems of Eduard Uspensky "Monkey Anfiska", "What children need most".

Another striking cartoon hit by Grigory Gladkov “In a box with pencils” was written for the television magazine for schoolchildren “Rubik” (1986), directed by Alexander Tatarsky.

Among the last works in tandem with Tatarsky was the writing of music for the famous cartoon series about the Kolobok brothers (characters invented by Eduard Uspensky in the book "The Abduction of the White Elephant"), then renamed the Pilot brothers.

The death of a colleague and close friend of Alexander Tatarsky in 2006 was a truly grievous loss for Gladkov. In 2010, Grigory Vasilyevich starred in the documentary “Alexander Tatarsky. The Lord of the Plasticine Crows ", in which he very warmly remembers the comrade, whose name is associated with the brightest works in animation.

Gladkov's creativity is filled not only with animated soundtracks. His music is played in dozens of children's performances: "Buratino", "Tryam, hello!", "Winnie the Pooh", "Little Red Riding Hood" and many others. The composer works a lot and fruitfully on radio and television. From 1995 to 1997, within the framework of the Every Day Holiday project, he conducted the Musical Lounge cycle on the RTR channel, where he told children in a playful way about various genres of music.

Since 1998, for 5 years he has hosted the program "Good night, kids", wrote songs and performed with a guitar for each release. Music screensavers, written by the talented composer, sounded in such programs as "Alarm Clock", "In the Animal World", "Dog Show" and others.

The first government award in the artist's biography appears in 2004: Gladkov was awarded the title of "Honored Artist of the Russian Federation". The next year he became a permanent member of the Junior Eurovision jury from Russia.

In addition to working at children's festivals and competitions, touring the country and abroad, Grigory Gladkov also writes adult lyrics. In 2014, the master released an album dedicated to his beloved city ("Walking around St. Petersburg to the accompaniment of guitar and rain"), which included songs and romances to verses by Vadim Shefner, Alexander Kushner, Joseph Brodsky, as well as his own authorship ("The Leningrad Blockade" and " On Rossi Street "). The cover of the disc was adorned with a funny photo of the composer running through the St. Petersburg puddles with an umbrella.

In 2016, the album "New Year's Songs by Composer Grigory Gladkov" was released, which included songs for children written in different years and performed by such ensembles as "Fidgets", "Stagecoach", "Rainbow". Grigory Gladkov remains the country's best-selling children's composer.

In the life of the famous artist, there was the first unfulfilled marriage. But Gladov turned this page of his personal life and does not return to it in his interviews and memoirs. It is only known that the ex-wife left for America.

He met his second wife, Yulia, at one of the country music festivals, of which he himself was. Julia accompanied performers from America. A casual acquaintance developed into a closer communication. And soon the man made an offer to the chosen one.

In 1998, the couple had a daughter, Alexander, and then a son, Pavel. Alexandra Gladkova chose the profession of an actress and is now studying at the Shchepkin VTU.

In 2018, the composer celebrated his 65th birthday with his large family: spouse, children and parents. And the creative holiday took place in the format of a small concert in the bard-cafe "Wood grouse's Nest". Gladkov recorded a disc of songs and romances "That which we call the Soul" for his anniversary.

Also in an interview, the hero of the day noted that he would like to concentrate on charitable activities. The composer was chosen as an ambassador of the Life Line fund for helping seriously ill children.

Grigory Gladkov is a vegetarian. His favorite dish is rice porridge. The composer put the multiplication table into music, calling this work "Multiplication table in songs for fast memorization." For this work he was awarded the title of Honorary Academician of Education. In 2011, Grigory Gladkov received a star in the constellation Northern Crown as a gift from the Russian Astronomical Society.

1984 - "Tales of the Old Wizard" 1985 - "The City as a Gift" 1987 - "The Old Yard, or Guitar Solo with a Children's Orchestra, or Sing, Grisha ..." 1987 - "The Day is Sweet"

1986 - "Day of the Open Animals" 1988 - "Sing, Vasya" 1989 - "Musician" 1990 - "Alarm Clock" 1993 - "Plasticine Crow and Company" 1996 - "Funafuti Island" 2014 - "Walks in St. Petersburg to the accompaniment of guitar and rain" 2018 - "What We Call Soul"

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