Valery Gavrilin (Валерий Гаврилин) Grand Waltz ( Anyuta Ballet)

Performed by (presumably): Leningrad State Concert Orchestra, 1983 Valery Gavrilin (probably the last great Russian classical composer) was born in 1939 in Vologda. In 1964 graduated from Leningrad Conservatoire. Died in St. Petersburg in 1999 at the age of 59 following two severe heart attacks. The art of Gavrilin is one of the most vivid and striking features of Russian culture. After having composed The Russian Music Book he entered into music of 1960es in the period of the socalled neofolklore wave which was a kind of parallel to the art of such Russian countrywriters in the genre prose as V. Belov, V. Astafiev, V. Shukshin. The truthful picture of the contemporary life of people, their mood, expectation, hopes and sorrows is presented in Gavrilin s music. Both the esthetics and the style in Gavrilin s art are the vivid example of the neoromantic. First of all it can be seen in the composer s inclination