‘I even didn’t know that I compose music’.

-It often happens that it’s quite little known about works by composer who writes for bayan. If you may, tell me about your compositions, about certain trends in your works.

-I didn’t even call my first composition ‘creation’, I even didn’t know that I compose music. At first I merely improvised, and later put it to music without idleness. This was Small Romantic Triptych: Elegy, Humoresque and Etude-Final. The music was romantic on its mode and classical shape. This is quite structured composition and absolutely neither in folk style nor on folk basis. In the second part, the Humoresque, I have certain sarcastic start, in the spirit of Prokofiev (I like joke in general, this is in creation too).

The Small Romantic Triptych was written in 1978. When I showed this music to Yuri Nikolayevich Shishakov, he approved the work and invited me to study composition optionally in his class.

This was very to the point. Because this fancy should be ‘smoothed’ all the same, no matter which gift of improvisation and glamorous fancy had the person. Therefore for me classics is before everything. In all genres, in all styles, in whatever. I have Classical scherzo, dedicated, to the point, to Ulyanovsk Music College. It was a compulsory piece in a competition of Volga Region’s bayanists. There are Romantic sequences, that haven’t been exactly written yet, only drafts do exist. In my folk elaborations there is also classical basis. For example, From Under a Stone – Russian folk theme, but according to form this is five-voiced fugue whom I managed to build in such manner to make it a classical fugue without any jazz and poly-stylistics. There are also Introduction and Toccatina in memoriam of Shostakovich, Prelude e-moll, Prelude and fugue c-moll, cycle Slavic Legend from four parts.

-Some of your arrangements rise to Russian folk choir music. For example, ‘From Under a Stone’ – is this choir repertoire?

- From Under a Stone is memory about Ulyanovsk Choir of Trade Unions. How many years have passed since, and I recollected this melody in a beautiful moment. From Under a Stone, by the way, is a song about Volga. ‘A river, a nice river, Mother Volga, is flowing beneath a stone’, generally, the Choir of Trade Unions sang From Under a Stone on eight voices.

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