Biography of the composer Ponomarenko

Grigory Fedorovich Ponomarenko is a famous talented Soviet composer and Bayanist, People's Artist of the USSR. Grigory Fedorovich was born on February 2 in the village of Morovsk, Ostersky district of the Chernihiv province of now the Chernihiv region of Ukraine in a peasant family. Music accompanied the composer all his life. The brother of his father, Maxim Terentyevich Ponomarenko, was a master of the manufacture of button accordions.

Grigory Fedorovich became interested in music from an early age and secretly from his father played the musical instruments of his uncle. Note literacy began to study in the church choir of the village of Mikhailovka G. In the year, Grigory Ponomarenko moves to live in Zaporozhye with Uncle Maxim, who determined the summer nephew as a student to professional button accordion Alexander Kinebas.

At the age of 14, he often accompanied tourists who arrived in Zaporozhye to see the construction of the hydroelectric power station. In the fall of the year, he managed to combine work with studying at the Kyiv Conservatory in the Bayan class by A. Magdik until the year, until the ensemble was transferred to the city of Lviv, where they met the war. In the year, G.

Ponomarenko is demobilized from the army and begins civil creative activities by soloist Bayanist in the N. Osipov Russian folk instruments orchestra in the city of Moscow. Fate connected G. Ponomarenko with the country's outstanding chormister - P. This creative union made it possible to reveal and realize not only Grigory Fedorovich’s composer talent, but also his gift of the organizer as a musical director.

In the year, Ponomarenko moves to live and work in the city of Kuibyshev now Samara as a leading button accordion in the newly created Volga folk choir named after P. Miloslavov, and from a year he has become the head of his musical part. In the city of Ponomarenko, which included more than 60 songs of the composer. In the period from the city, Grigory Fedorovich created many songs, and it was this genre that becomes the basis of the composer's work.

The following songs were widely fame by G. Ponomarenko: “Green Ivushka” Alferov, "Orenburg downy scarf" Bokov, became the hallmark of the State Orenburg Russian Folk Choir, “Oh, Snow Snow” Bokov, “I will call you a keen” Bokov, “went out into the fields of a young agronomist” Bokov, "Naryan-Mar" Kashezheva, for her, G. Ponomarenko received the title of honorary citizen of the city of Naryan-Mar in the year and others.

From the year of G. Ponomarenko lives and works in the city of Volgograd the head of the Russian folk choir of the Palace of Culture of the Volgograd Tractor Plant. Here he turned to the great poetic heritage of Sergei Yesenin, writing his first song to his poems "Golden Grove." Ponomarenko moved to the Kuban. Here he continued to work on the creation of songs for the verses of S.

Yesenin, created a cycle of songs for poems by A. in the Kuban Grigory Fedorovich wrote songs that became part of the spiritual life of Russians: “Do not wake the cranes of the widows of Russia” Golub, "Oh, the village of the native village" Varavva, "Novorossiysk" Wolfers, "and I only understand now" sl. Bergholz, "Song of the Horn Territory" Georgiev, “What is the Kuban? Bakaldin, "Krasnodar Street Krasnaya" Dorizo, "meadow flowers" Krasikov, "did not talk" Levitsky, "I will definitely return" M.

Lukasheva “Song of Mom” by N. Mordovina in the year the composer writes music for the film “The stepmother”, and in the year for the film “Uncotland”, in the year - Libretto by the operetta A. Sofronov “An old Cossack way”. This title was not awarded to him for a very long time, because the composer never received a diploma of higher musical education. Ponomarenko became an honorary member of the Krasnodar State Academy of Culture.

In the year, the administration of the Krasnodar Territory G. Ponomarenko was awarded the Kuban Educator K. Award K. For his creative career, the composer wrote operetta, Bayan concerts with an orchestra, music for films, dramatic performances, works for button accordion, domra and other musical instruments. Grigory Fedorovich also wrote the spiritual choir music "All -Night Vigil".

This work was first performed in the column hall in the city of Moscow and in the Smolny Hall of the city of St. Petersburg. In total, Grigory Fedorovich created about 4.5 thousand works, among them are also the processing of folk songs. Songs of Grigory Fedorovich Ponomarenko performed K. Shulzhenko, L. Zykina, I. Kobzon, L. Leshchenko, V. Tolkunova, N. Bregvadze, G.

Velikanov, E. Shavrina, T. Gverdzeteli, O. Gazmanov, F. Kirkorov, N. Babkin, N. Kadysheva, O. Voronets and many other famous artists. The composer’s work is known abroad: his songs were performed by the Japanese ensemble “Royal-Nights”, the popular Yugoslav singer Lilian Petrovich, famous Bulgarian performers Lily Ivanova and Beads Kirov, the Finnish ensemble “Cossack”.

In Greece, the melody of the song “Ivushka” sounds in the screensaver for the musical programs of state television. Grigory Fedorovich also wrote poems. The name of Grigory Fedorovich Ponomarenko is listed in the "World Musical Encyclopedia". At the Mosfilm film studio in the year, on the summer of the birth of the composer G.Ponomarenko made a film about his work "Where can I get such a song." Grigory Fedorovich Ponomarenko was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree, the medal "For the Defense of Moscow", the medal "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of the GG.

Apollonov at the house where he lived in Krasnodar, Krasnaya Street, Yakovlev, and in the year was moved to the building of the Krasnodar Philharmonic. Ponomarenko ”in order to perpetuate the memory and propaganda of the composer's work. The opening of the apartment museum took place on February 27 in the composer’s apartment at the address: Krasnaya street, apartment 80, on the third floor.

The ceremony was attended by the heads of the administration of the Krasnodar Territory and the city of Krasnodar, outstanding figures of musical culture, the creative community of Russia and the Kuban. Among them were the widow of the composer V. Zhuravlev-Ponomarenko, L. Zykina, V. Commander and others. In December of the year, the administration of the Krasnodar Territory established a prize in the field of vocal and chore art named after G.

Ponomarenko "became a department in the state budgetary institution of culture of the Krasnodar Territory of the Krasnodar State Historical and Archaeological Reserve named after G. Ponomarenko, several children's art schools of the Krasnodar Territory and Street in the city of Krasnodar were named.