German Galynin - String Quartet No.2 (1956)

00:00 / 03:53 / 07:47 /10:23 / Mozart Quartet: A. Lundin (first violin), I. Pavlihin (second violin), A. Kulapov (viola), V. Marinyuk (cello).
Raised in an orphanage, he taught himself to play several folk instruments and the piano. In 1941, after Operation Barbarossa began and when he was already a student at Moscow Conservatory, he joined the army as a volunteer, there directing various grass-roots performances, and writing songs and music to dramas. In 1943–50 he resumed studies at the Moscow Conservatory under Dmitri Shostakovich and Nikolay Myaskovsky (in composition) and Igor Sposobin (in music theory). Tikhon Khrennikov criticized Galynin's First Piano Concerto, although later (in 1957) he denied such an assessment.
Despite falling seriously ill with schizophrenia in 1951 and in consequence spending a considerable part of his life in hospitals and psychiatric clinics, Galynin remained an active composer. Within the well-developed system of public Children's Music Schools in Russia and the former Soviet republics Galynin is most gratefully remembered for his short and easy pieces of music composed for beginners, some of them being variations of popular folk melodies.
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