Biography Boris Tikhonov

He was the first Soviet button accordion to introduce Bayan to the listeners in a new combination with other tools. It is rightfully considered the founder of the first instrumental quartet, in which, along with clarinet, guitar and smuggling, the button accordion sounded. Boris Ermilovich Tikhonov was born on November 17, in Tver, on Tikhoy Mednikovskaya Street, where his Baska had a small wooden house.

In the same house was a workshop of music master Mikhail Rusin. The boy watched the work of the master and fascinatedly listened to how he plays Bayan and the accordion. Rusin noticed the musical abilities of the boy and taught the five-summer Boris to play harmonica. In the year, the Tikhonov family moved to Moscow. Boris, studying at the school, participated in artistic and modernity and at the competition of young talents of the Krasnoprezhensky district of the capital took first place.

When the Tikhonov family lived in Leningrad for some time, then at the city review Boris was awarded the first prize for the original processing of Russian folk songs and their personal performance. At this time, he had already tried to make small plays. Returning to Moscow, he entered the musical learning of the name of the October Revolution, he continues to write to the Bayana class.

Several of his plays were even included in the curriculum in the Bayan class. Boris decides to seriously engage in creativity and in the state, after graduating from the school named after the October Revolution, he enters the Gneshy Music School, in the classroom of the famous composer Yu. However, they almost had to study: Tikhonov was taken to the arc. He served in the ensemble of songs and dances at the Central Club of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

During the Great Patriotic War, he performed in concerts for warriors. After the war, B. Tikhonov for a long time worked as a bayanist in a pop orchestra led by V. Knuvitsky. Then he created his first instrumental quartet, which was widely recognized by the diimators. At the same time, Boris Ermilovich works a lot and fruitfully as a composer. He writes a light muvnka- Polish, waltzes, as well as marches.

Particularly pain pays attention to songs. Tikhonov’s works are gaining popularity. They are performed by widely notified masters of Soviet art L. Zykin, E. Semenzina, A. Frolov, V. Selinov, G. Dudarev and others. Tikhonov also owns the works of a large form: the vocal suits "sing spacious Siberia", "You, my beloved." In collaboration with the poet O. Volin, he created the vocal and instrumental cycle: "Days, not counting the road." This is a cycle of ten songs about the cities of Sisy-Biri and the Far East.

The last years of his life, Boris Ermilovich was engaged only in composer.

He wrote more than two hundred songs and over a hundred instrumental plays. His works are published in many collections, records on gramples and sound in concert programs. Boris Ermilovich traveled a lot around the country, he performed in almost all major cities of the republic. Often, gasted abroad. Czechs, Poles, Finns, and residents of the German Democratic Republic and West Africa applauded him.

Tikhonov died in Moscow on December 26. Source: Shikov V. Musicians of the Upper Volga. Kalinin: Moscow Worker, Kalinin Branch,