Without exaggeration, Vladimir Vysotsky is a true legend of cinema, music and theater. Vysotsky's musical compositions are living and undying classics.
The work of a musician is very difficult to classify. Vladimir Vysotsky went beyond the usual presentation of music.
Usually, Vladimir's musical compositions are classified as bardic music. However, one should not miss the moment that the manner of performance and the theme of Vysotsky's songs is very different from the classical bard presentation. The musician did not recognize himself as a bard.
More than one generation has grown up on the songs of Vladimir Vysotsky. His works are imbued with deep meaning.
The musician not only composed excellent lyrics, but also devoted himself to composing chords. Vysotsky is a cult personality. Vladimir has no competitors and imitators.
Childhood and youth of Vladimir Vysotsky
The full name of the musician sounds like Vladimir Semenovich Vysotsky. The future star was born in the capital of Russia - Moscow, back in 1938.
Pope Vladimir has something to do with creativity. The fact is that he, like his son, was a bard and an actor. In addition, my father was a participant in the Great Patriotic War.
The mother of little Vova worked as a referent translator. During the Patriotic War, Vysotsky's mother decided to move to the Orenburg region.
At that time, little Vova was only 4 years old. Vladimir spent about 2 years there, and after the evacuation he returned to Moscow again.
Two years after the end of the war, Vysotsky's parents divorced.
At the age of 9, Volodya ends up in occupied post-war Germany.
Vysotsky recalled this difficult period in his life, with tears in his eyes. His childhood could not be called rosy, unlike his peers, who were in the territory of the USSR.
In Germany, Vladimir became interested in playing musical instruments. Mom, seeing that her son was in awe of the piano, sent him to a music school.
Vysotsky's mother is getting married a second time. The relationship between stepfather and Vladimir does not work out as it should.
My father also found himself another woman. Vladimir warmly recalls his stepmother.
Vladimir returned to Moscow in 1949. There he began to live with his own father and stepmother.
In the capital of Russia, Vysotsky's acquaintance with music began. Rather, Volodya falls into the youth party of the 50s.
The first chords of Vysotsky are something like thieves' romance, a popular trend for those whose childhood passed during the war.
The guys sang about warriors, Kolyma and Murka. It was during this period that Vysotsky's love with the guitar happened.
At the age of ten, Vysotsky begins to attend a drama club. As a child, of course, he did not yet understand that his future belonged to the theater.
The teachers noted that the boy had a natural talent - he could try on almost any role, but dramatic images suited him the most.
After Vladimir received a diploma of secondary education, he submits documents to the Moscow Construction College. Volodya lasted exactly six months. He realized that he did not want to work as a builder, therefore, without remorse, he takes the documents and goes on a free voyage.
There is a legend that on the eve of the session, Vladimir, together with his peers, prepared drawings. The boys worked all night on their work. When Vysotsky finished his drawing, he poured out a jar of ink and threw out his sheet.
Volodya realized that he did not want to be in this educational institution for a minute.
After his decision, he becomes a student of the Moscow Art Theater. A year later, Vladimir Vysotsky made his debut on the theater stage in a play based on Dostoevsky's novel Crime and Punishment.
Then Vladimir Semenovich played the first small role in the film "Peers".
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After graduating from the Moscow Art Theater, Vladimir is hired by the Pushkin Theater. But, work in the theater did not quite suit Vysotsky, so he goes to the Theater of Miniatures.
There, Vladimir plays in small episodes and extras. This job also does not cheer him up. He dreams of roles in the Sovremennik Theatre.
Vladimir Vysotsky began to experience real pleasure playing at the Taganka Theater. In this theater, Vladimir tried on different images.
But the most striking works of Vysotsky was the performance of the role of Hamlet, Pugachev, Svidrigailov and Galileo.
Together with the Taganka Theater, the actor toured a lot. Tours took place in the United States of America, Canada, Germany, France and Poland.
Vladimir Vysotsky for a short theatrical career was able to establish himself as an actor. But, most importantly, playing on stage really gave him considerable pleasure.
Musical career of Vladimir Vysotsky
Vladimir Vysotsky wrote the texts for his musical compositions on his own. The poem “My Oath”, which Vysotsky dedicated to Stalin, made a very big impression on the public.
The debut musical composition of Vladimir was the song "Tattoo". The musician performed it in 1961. She has evil motives.
Previously, music critics jokingly refer to Vysotsky's work as a cycle of "yard" works.
But, despite the fact that Vysotsky considers "Tattoo" the first musical composition in his work, there is also the track "49 Oceans", which was written even earlier.
This piece of music describes the feat of Soviet soldiers who drifted across the Pacific Ocean.
Vysotsky deleted the song from his work, because he considered it base and of poor quality.
According to the musician, one can compose many such poems simply by opening the heading of current events in any newspaper and rewriting the names.
It was very important for Vysotsky to pass his creations through himself. He filters high-quality and low-quality texts, selecting only the most heartfelt works.
Vladimir Vysotsky until the last days of his life considered Bulat Okudzhava his mentor. The musician was so imbued with this great man that he even wrote the musical composition “Song of Truth and Lies” for him.
The peak of Vysotsky's popularity as a musician falls on the middle of the 1960s. The first listeners did not appreciate Vladimir's work, and he himself, to put it mildly, was not enthusiastic about his musical works.
In 1965, his work "Submarine" became a sign that the youthful work of the early poet was over.
The musician's first record was released in 1968. Vladimir Vysotsky released a collection of songs for the movie "Vertical". The top song of the mentioned album was the song "Song of a Friend".
For the first time in the middle of the 70s, Vladimir Vysotsky's poem "From the Road Traffic" was published in the official Soviet collection.
A little time will pass, and the musician will present to his many fans the next album, which was called “V. Vysotsky. Self-portrait.
The album came out very large, with author's digressions before each song and accompaniment on three guitars.
In the late 70s, Vladimir Vysotsky began to actively tour other countries.
The musician traveled to the USA. Interestingly, later in America there will be pirated albums of Vysotsky, which scammers made at one of his performances.
In the last years of his life, Vladimir Vysotsky was actively involved in touring.
For the most part, he performed on the territory of the Soviet Union. In addition, he played one of his favorite roles of Hamlet in the Taganka Theater.
In the creative piggy bank of this cult personality there are about 600 songs and 200 poems. Interestingly, the work of Vladimir Vysotsky is still interested.
His songs do not lose their relevance to this day.
He released 7 of his own albums and 11 collections of songs by other musicians performed by him.
Death of Vladimir Vysotsky
Despite the powerful appearance of the musician, his state of health left much to be desired. However, many agreed that poor health was due to the fact that Vysotsky was sitting firmly on alcoholic beverages.
In addition to alcohol, Vladimir smoked more than one pack of cigarettes a day.
Vladimir Vysotsky was a cult and famous person. But despite this, he suffered from alcoholism. During the period of exacerbation, he was caught around the city. He often ran away from home, and behaved, to put it mildly, not adequately.
For a long time, the musician had problems with the respiratory and cardiovascular systems. The singer's friends say that in the last years of his life he reduced portions of alcohol, but he could not completely give up his addiction.
The first serious attack came to Vysotsky in 1969. Vladimir's throat bled.
The ambulance arrived and told Vysotsky's wife that he was not a tenant, and they would not hospitalize him. The persistence of his wife did its job, Vysotsky was taken away. The operation lasted about a day.
Alcohol addiction led to the fact that the musician began to have serious problems with the heart and kidneys. To relieve pain, doctors use narcotic substances.
By the mid-70s, the performer develops drug addiction.
By 1977, Vladimir could no longer live without morphine.
In 1980, Vladimir Vysotsky died. Death befell the musician when he was sleeping. At the request of relatives, an autopsy was not performed, so the exact cause of Vysotsky's death has not been established.
