Terrible premonitions and miraculous rescues of the artists of the Alexandrov ensemble. Valery Khalilov: chief conductor of Russia from Termez

Biography, life story of Valery Mikhailovich Khalilov

The beginning of a musical journey

Valery Mikhailovich comes from the Uzbek city of Termez. There he was born on January 30, 1952. When Valera was nine years old, the family moved to the capital of the USSR. The boy's future was predetermined by the profession of his father, a military director. At the same time, the smart child showed his musical inclinations quite early. He composed the first notes in his life at the age of four, and at the age of eleven he was enrolled in the Moscow Military Music School. The picturesque place where it was located (Serebryany Bor) was conducive to creative endeavors. Here the teenager not only mastered instruments, but also composed music. At the same time, I got used to the strict army regime. Of course, about full military service there was no talk, but the daily routine was as close as possible to that of a soldier. I had to get used to the barracks situation.

But in 1967 Valery Khalilov received unforgettable experience from the unusually beautiful and powerful military parade on Red Square, which he solemnly walked through as part of a company of drummers. Until now, Valery Mikhailovich recalled this with boyish delight and pride. Subsequently, he marched through the main square of the country more than once, but he is unable to forget that period of his youth.

In the period from 1970 to 1975 he studied at the Moscow State Conservatory. at the faculty where they trained leaders of ensemble music performance in the army. The young man’s mentor was the outstanding Soviet conductor Georgy Alyavdin.

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After graduating from this institution, Khalilov arrived at the disposal of the Pushkinsky command higher school military radio electronics air defense. For a young specialist entrusted with conducting the orchestra. Valery zealously and competently took up his official duties, as a result of which, later a short time brought out his creative team to a leading position in the Leningrad Military District. At the district military band competition, Khalilov’s cadets came out on top.

Since 1981, he has been involved in teaching, and in 2002 he headed the orchestra unit of the Russian Armed Forces. He was involved in the development of many spectacular performances, in particular, the Spasskaya Tower festival. The history of this popular patriotic event began in 2007.

Valery Khalilov has always been of the opinion that the army orchestra must certainly be placed at the forefront. That is why, according to him, the profession of a military musician must be respected and its representatives supported in every possible way.

Death

The life of Valery Khalilov was tragically cut short on December 25, 2016 in a plane crash over the Black Sea. The general died as a result of the crash of the plane on which he and the musicians were heading to Syria.

Valery Mikhailovich Khalilov was born on January 30, 1952 in the Uzbek city of Termez. His father was a military conductor. Valery and his younger brother subsequently followed in his footsteps.

Khalilov began studying music at the age of four. When he was 9 years old, the family moved to Moscow. Two years later, Valery was sent to the Moscow Military Music School. She was in Serebryany Bor. In one of his interviews, Khalilov recalled that a real army spirit reigned at school, which strengthened him. He graduated from it in two classes: clarinet and piano.

After school, Khalilov became a student at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory. Valery chose the military conducting department.

Career

His first place of work after graduating from the conservatory was the orchestra of the Pushkin Higher Military Command School of Air Defense Radioelectronics. Valery was hired there as a conductor. Five years later, the orchestra under his direction won the competition of the Leningrad Military District.

In 1981, Khalilov began leading teaching activities. He began teaching classes at the military conducting department at his alma mater.

In 1984, Valery was sent to the directorate of the military band service of the USSR Armed Forces. There he rose from officer to deputy chief.

In 2002, Khalilov became Russia's chief military conductor. In this position, he organized many parades throughout the country, including on Red Square.

Khalilov was not afraid to enrich the repertoire of military bands. He played songs Soviet era, jazz compositions and own compositions.

Tragic death

In 2016, he became the director of the Academic Song and Dance Ensemble of the Russian Army named after A. V. Alexandrov. Together with his artists, on December 26, 2016, he died in a plane crash over the Black Sea. Then the ensemble, led by Khalilov, flew to Syria to give New Year's concerts in front of the Russian military.

Valery is buried in a cemetery near the village of Novinki, Kirzhach district Vladimir region. This is his mother's homeland. He often visited Novinki as a child, and bequeathed to bury himself there.

In June 2018, Russia’s first monument to Valery Khalilov was erected in Tambov. At one time, he called this city the Mecca of military brass music. Khalilov also organized international brass band festivals in Tambov.

Personal life

Valery Khalilov was married. He met Natalya in Abkhazia, in her hometown Gagra. At that time, Valery was still an ordinary soldier. In his marriage to Natalya, two daughters were born.

KHALILOV VALERY MIKHAILOVICH DIRECTOR OF THE ENSEMBLE NAMED AFTER ALEXANDROV.

Born (01/30/1952) into the family of a military conductor in the city of Termez, Uzbek SSR.
Khalilov's father is Lak by nationality, originally from the village of Khuty, Dagestan; mother -
Crimean Tatar. From the age of 11 - a student of the military music school
in Moscow (clarinet). In 1970-1975 he studied at the military conducting
faculty at the Moscow State Conservatory. P. I. Tchaikovsky.

First place of service - conductor of the Pushkin Higher Military Orchestra
Command School of Air Defense Radioelectronics. In 1980 the orchestra
under Khalilov's management took 1st place in the competition
military bands of the Leningrad Military District. In 1981 Khalilov
appointed as a teacher at the military conducting faculty of the Moscow
State Conservatory named after. P.I. Tchaikovsky.
In 1984 he was transferred to the directorate of the military orchestra service of the USSR Armed Forces.
From 2002 to 2016 - Head of the Military Band Service Russian Federation -
Chief military conductor. He has repeatedly served in this position.
as conductor of a combined military orchestra,
who took part in the Parades dedicated to Victory Day on Red Square.
Since May 2015 - member of the board of trustees of the Academy of Festive Culture.
In April 2016, he was appointed to the position of Head of the Ensemble -
artistic director of the Academic Song and Dance Ensemble
Russian Army named after A.V. Alexandrov.

Valery Khalilov organized many festive theatrical events,
in which both military brass bands of Russia and groups took part
from many countries of the world. Among these events were such international military musical
festivals such as “Kremlin Dawn” and “Spasskaya Tower”. Was musical
director of the festivals “Spasskaya Tower”, “Amur Waves” (Khabarovsk) and
"March of the Century" (Tambov), as well as the International Military Musical
festival in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.

Toured with leading orchestras of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation
in Austria, Sweden, USA, Hungary, Germany, North Korea, Mongolia, Poland, Finland,
France, Switzerland, Belgium.
Peru Khalilov owns works for brass band: “Adagio”,
“Elegy”, marches - “Cadet”, “Youth”, “Rynda”, “Ulan”, romances and songs.

AWARDS: Order "For Service to the Motherland in Armed Forces USSR" III degree,
Order of Honor, USSR medals, Russian Federation medals.

ACADEMIC RANK – associate professor.

VALERY'S BROTHER - Alexander Mikhailovich Khalilov - senior teacher
Military Institute
(military conductors) of the Military University of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Honored A
rtist of the Russian Federation (1997), colonel. He is the author of the music
to the song “We are leaving the East” by VIA “Cascade”.

Valery Mikhailovich Khalilov died in Sochi on December 25, 2016 in an aviation accident.
the crash of a Tu-154 plane of the Russian Ministry of Defense heading to Syria.
A total of 92 people died, including 64 artists led and
m Ensemble named after Alexandrov.

Wikipedia.

Happened great tragedy, which, I think, not a single person passed by.
Constant reports on television, and millions of people not only tune in
to the screens, but sincerely cry, experiencing this severe loss. On the faces of Russians
sadness and sadness. The people who flew to help the military personnel, without exception,
worthy, talented, brave.

Me personally and Kubansky Cossack choir knew the Red Banner Ensemble well
songs and dances named after Alexandrov are our most famous group, the pride of the country.
First impressions - from the very early childhood when I first heard
on the Red Banner radio. They sounded “Get up, huge country”,
“Evening at the roadstead” - yes, any song in their repertoire lifted the spirit.
The team itself was perceived as a sign of our patriotism,
impeccable professionalism and high spirituality. We know and remember
that its founder Alexander Vasilievich Alexandrov -
former regent of the main Russian temple, the Cathedral of Christ the Savior.

We have a lot of overlap with the Alexandrovites. I'll remember one thing. In 2012
The 200th anniversary of Napoleonic campaign was celebrated. At a concert in France the ensemble
Alexandrova and the Kuban Cossack Choir performed as a single team.
We have saved the most good feelings about this partnership. Recently
in Moscow, I headed the jury of the competition, which was held by the revived
Choral Society. Russian choirs listened, and among the judges
was Lieutenant General Valery Mikhailovich Khalilov.
We were connected by acquaintance as we walked: when we met, we nodded to each other,
They said hello, but did not communicate closely. We can say that the competition
in the Izmailovo Kremlin gave me a loved one, very loved one.
We talked about the problems of developing brass music and noted with regret that
that it is now in deep decline. About brass bands
Valery Mikhailovich - the country's first military conductor - knew everything.
I told him about the march parades that took place before perestroika.
in Krasnodar and in all Cossack cities. One of the topics of our conversations was
and the Red Banner Ensemble. Khalilov listened to me carefully
and agreed that he had a great responsibility
continue the glorious path of the team, which cannot stand still,
but must develop. We turned out to be like-minded people.
The conversations were wonderful, I felt in him a musician, an artist,
a citizen concerned about his life's work.

Valery Mikhailovich showed some exemplary human qualities.
For deliberations, the jury retired to a small room where it was very cold.
I arrived without warm clothes and shivered with chills.
Then he brought a fur coat from the locker room and threw it over my shoulders.
I denied it, said that it was not a general’s
it's a matter of serving a fur coat. A military man, strict, even a little stern,
Khalilov was kind, warm and caring at heart.

Kubansky Cossack choir for 205 years, and every year on the team’s birthday
we remember the departed and sing “Eternal Memory.” Now we will commemorate
those who died on December 25 - Valery Khalilov and all the artists whom we will not forget.
They are our brothers in art, we mourn and experience the bitterness of loss.
The Kingdom of heaven. Eternal peace to all the innocent fallen! God is with us -
Let's remember this...

A very long time ago, back in Novosibirsk, from where I returned to my homeland more
four decades ago, I wrote a song. Newspaper "Komsomolskaya Pravda"
announced a poetry competition. Gennady Golovaty - young, then unknown
Chita poet - received Grand Prize for a poem of two quatrains.
At first, when I was young, I even felt indignant: why only eight lines?
When I read them, they began to sound in my heart and soul - and a song was born.
It was never performed, but I dreamed that one day the Alexandrovites would sing it.
Apparently not destined to happen. Now, in these mourning days, I feel that these amazing
the poems are related to the fate of the Red Banner Ensemble.

* * *
Blind people cannot look angry.
Dumb people cannot scream violently.
Armless people cannot hold weapons.
Legless people cannot walk forward.

But the dumb can look angry.
But the blind can scream furiously.
But - legless people can hold weapons.
But the armless can step forward.

26.12.2016
Elena FEDORENKO
Newspaper "Culture"

PRAYER FOR THE SOUL OF VALERY KHALILOV,
DIRECTOR OF THE ENSEMBLE NAMED AFTER ALEXANDROV,
KILLED IN THE TU-154 PLANE CRASH
OVER THE BLACK SEA.

Our Heavenly Father! Hallowed be your name!
Our Heavenly Intercessor - Holy Mother of God!
Jesus Christ is the Savior of the World! Mother Earth!
Prophets, Archangels, Angels, Saints!
May the soul of Valery Mikhailovich Khalilov rest in peace,
artistic director and conductor
Ensemble named after Alexandrov,
who died in the crash of the Tu-154 plane.
May the bright sorrow and prayers of relatives,
friends, fans and everyone good people
help Valery's soul find heavenly peace.
May the death of this talented musician
a skillful leader and a brave general
will serve to establish peace on Earth.
Let him replace Valery Khalilov
there will be a worthy leader for the Ensemble.
Let the Alexandrov Ensemble
gifted people will come, especially young people.
Glory and eternal memory to Valery Khalilov
and all those who died with him.
Glory to the Heavenly Father
and to all Divine powers!
Amen.

PRAYER FOR THE SOULS OF LOST ARTISTS
FROM THE ENSEMBLE NAMED AFTER ALEXANDROV
IN THE TU-154 PLANE CRASH
OVER THE BLACK SEA

On Saturday, the bright holiday of the old New Year, a burial service was held in the Moscow Epiphany Church for military conductor Valery Khalilov, who led the ensemble named after. Alexandrova. Hundreds of people came to say goodbye to the musician - school classmates, students and fans.

Valery Khalilov was very talented composer. "It was of the highest dignity Human,- The assistant professor at the Academy named after him spoke quietly. Gnessinykh Sergey Reshetov. “After all, it’s always clear from a person’s music what he is like. And in Valera’s music his nobility, his honor, his sublimity were visible. He was a real military conductor - always fit, slender, up to last days I did sports". “They say that there are no irreplaceable people,” added Sergei Reshetov after a pause. - But in the case of Valera, this is too great a loss. I still can’t believe that he’s gone. Every day it gets worse and worse.”

The Pravmir portal has collected fragments from several interviews with Valery Mikhailovich - about childhood, profession and faith in God.

ABOUT BAPTISM AND FAITH

I was baptized at four years old. I grew up in a village near Kirzhach, my grandmother was a believer, and not just devout, like all the old women in those days, but a deep, sincere believer. She often told me: “Granddaughter, it wasn’t us who started it, it’s not ours to abolish,” because Orthodoxy and church life seemed to me something completely organic, unchanging and correct. The wooden chapel that stood in our village was destroyed, and on holidays all the grandmothers went to the monastery church in the neighboring village. I walked with them, and I remember everything, even though I was small: our fairy-tale forests, Vladimir... strawberry meadows, domed churches. Even Russian nature itself is fascinating, but I don’t understand how anyone can not love the Church at least as a part of Russian spiritual culture!

I was strong, I’ll be honest, but now I’m skinny. In general, I was so plump, plump, I was already, so to speak, a conscious person. Dad was a communist, and my mother, taking advantage of the opportunity that my father was working and I was in the village, she says to my grandmother: “Come on, while my father is away.” But dad wasn’t against it, but you know what it was like in those days? He was an army officer, he was a conductor, like my brother is a conductor, and my nephew in Sevastopol is now a conductor, by the way. Therefore, maybe because my mother was afraid that if they found out from my father, they might do something. In short, I was baptized. I remember this moment very well, when I was baptized for the first time. They put me in the courtyard, in the yard, we have a hut and a yard in front of the hut. They put it in a basin with cold water. How's that? Father leaned over me, and I was such a healthy boy, and I grabbed his beard. You know how it is... Butt by the beard.

I was baptized at the age of four, and when I slept in the hallway, there was a picture above my head. I don’t remember which one, there were a lot of holy people in this picture, but every “lights out”, as they now say in military parlance, I was accompanied by this picture. When I went to bed, the boy was completely in the village in this hut. Then she disappeared, because there were times when people went around collecting paintings and icons. And our village is unguarded, they just broke into many of the icons in many of our houses in the village, just... Then it was such a disgrace. This icon has disappeared. Besides, we have such a village, so picturesque, so stunning, small, so patriarchal, it’s simply impossible not to believe in something so heavenly there, despite all its beauty.

This is the environment in which I was brought up. This is all, as they say, from God. I have this Russianness, it is rooted in this village.

All this prompted me to believe in God. Well, besides this, there were just cases, very interesting... and why did I live, then, now it’s called Yakimanka. As before, by the way, there is this church there, Oktyabrskaya metro station. And then Easter, I remember. People walk around the church, this really stuck with me. We, young people, stand on the parapets around the church, the police do not let us in there. Grandmothers in headscarves with children and small ones sneak in there - they let them through. We can’t go there, we are young people - they don’t let us in there, and I think this is what they are doing there, what they are doing there, why they are not letting us in.

Here's the question: why? What are they doing there that’s so bad, why aren’t they letting us in? I was always drawn there because singing was heard from there, some smells, you know, candles, all that, crosses, some kind of sacrament. It was still attractive. The more they banned it, the more I was drawn there in this sense. There are some little things that go unnoticed, and then you analyze: why did you do that? Yes, because this little thing influenced you, so everyone goes to God on their own path, of course, and some, maybe even some little things, lead to this road, I don’t know. Signs? Don't know. But it did, thank God!

ABOUT CHOOSING A PROFESSION

My dad was a military conductor. I now have a younger brother who is a military conductor. And the current military conductor's nephew, a lieutenant, serves as a sailor in Sevastopol. That is, I have a dynastic family on the male side, military conductors. Thanks to my father, I entered the Moscow Military Music School. And, to be honest, when I got in, I didn’t understand why I went there. He was torn away from the comforts of home at the age of 11 and ended up in the walls of a closed educational institution. Moreover, everything was inherent in the military mentality: getting up, going out, exercising, physical exercise. And, of course, general education and music subjects. The duration of study is 7 years; I entered at 11 and graduated at 18. All my physical and biological growth occurred during this period. School instilled this in me professional education, which I still use today. That's how I became a military conductor.

ABOUT SACRED AND MILITARY MUSIC

I often think about the internal similarities between seemingly opposite spheres - military and sacred music. After all, military music has amazing power, and, contrary to stereotypes, it is not at all aggressive. It pains me to hear when they say that the execution of marches is a step towards the militarization of the entire country. It seems to me that we must think in terms of artistic taste. A good march is as difficult to write as good song! Every great composer has its own face, national musical tradition Same: main feature our Russian military music - in its special melodicism, in its folklore, popular intonations.

Do they know how modern people perceive classical music? It is possible to determine whether a person perceives music well or poorly only after he learns to perceive it! And how does a person discover the beauty classical music, if he was not instilled with love for her from childhood? There is a zone in the soul of each of us that is open to everything high and good - open to the right music. And I call the right music that which, in its emotional impact, encourages a person to the most best deeds- creation, creation. And if so-called “light” music can serve as an unobtrusive background, then classics can never do so. Listening to classics is the work of the soul.

People are the same at all times, they are always open to good music. This means that we must educate to the best of our abilities. Without boasting, I can say that we have opened the doors of many concert halls for military bands: Great Hall Moscow Conservatory, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, International House of Music. And we give away free tickets, despite the fact that, according to all the laws of commerce, people seem to be more willing to go to events when they bought a ticket with their hard-earned money. Believe me, I never flattered myself with the hope that all our concerts would be sold out, but we have people sitting on the steps just to listen to the music! And how can you then say that modern man not able to perceive the classics?

We dream of bringing brass music back to the parks and to the people. After all, people today especially lack something real... at work, in everyday life, and we try to fill this urgent need with live music and beautiful melodies. Here a typical city person comes to a concert: merged with the city, unable to imagine his life without hot water and TV, as if stuck, dried up to this comfortable life. And suddenly he hears the sounds of a military brass band, plunges into another world and... thaws. Ask him at this moment what he is thinking about now, and he will definitely say: about love, about children, about his homeland, about God.

You know, I noticed an amazing thing: a brass band simply cannot play bad music! Even if the musicians play poorly, this music still enchants, even if some sounds are conveyed incorrectly. It’s like in nature: one person likes autumn, another doesn’t: everything withers, it’s slushy, your feet get wet. But still, every time of year is wonderful! Also brass music: her very nature, her very breath is pure, bright.

It is probably on this plane that music - whether military or simply classical - intersects with spiritual life. And I really want my work to instill only moral values ​​in people.

I have a joke like this. I tell religious people: “You know, I have a friend who wrote a Ph.D. dissertation on the topic “The influence of brass music on the spiritual life of the clergy.” This is a joke, but of course, in reality, and again I always say this: technology is developing, but where do people tend to go with urbanization? Where are they heading? On nature. I always compare, look what’s happening on Friday, what’s going on on the roads - where is everyone running? In the forest, in the clearings, in nature.

The brass band is nature, it is a living sound emanating from there, from within. And even if he plays primitively, even the boys play, an amateur orchestra - these simple melodies, this primitivism even, in a sense, but the presentation of these sounds, these natural ones, and again I say, at the genetic level, makes people hear. There are people all around, I don’t want to say, all sorts of people, maybe even strange ones, but they gather because apparently this music of ours somehow affects the cerebral cortex. They're getting ready. Even if they play poorly, the crowd gathers around the brass band.

ABOUT PRAYER IN A MILITARY MARCH

Let's say the march "General Miloradovich". The idea was suggested by Colonel Babanko Gennady Ivanovich, who during my service in Pushkino was the head of the political department of the school and, already in retirement, wrote the book “General Miloradovich”, knowing that I was writing music, called me and said: Valer, write music about General Miloradovich , I’ll give you a book to read, and you, inspired by this book, write a march. And after reading the book, I realized that the fate of this general is completely extraordinary and not only forgotten, but in a conceptual understanding it is simply perverted.

General Miloradovich, commanding the rearguard, did not allow the enemy to collide with our troops at the time he desired. Hero of the War of 1812. In 1824, the December uprising. Senate square. As you know, the Decembrists withdrew their troops. Miloradovich was the Governor-General of St. Petersburg. When he entered Senate Square, the troops, recognizing him, began to fall on their faces. And one of the Decembrists, former lieutenant Kakhovsky, seeing that a turning point in the uprising was about to take place, used a ladies’ pistol from behind to inflict a mortal wound on Miloradovich, from which he died.

So there is Kakhovsky Street in St. Petersburg, but there is no Miloradovich Street. And in general, the surname Miloradovich arose after the tsar summoned Khrabrenovich, his ancestor, and said: you are very dear to me with your courage, you will become Miloradovich. And in this march for the first time I used prayer, and I wrote the music for this prayer myself. There is no such analogue. And if you listen to the march carefully, you can imagine the social life of St. Petersburg, and the prayer service before the battle, and the return of these Russian soldiers. All this with a choir.

By the way, in the march, in our Russian and Soviet marches, this is the first time that prayer has been introduced into the march. I did this based on the image that General Miloradovich himself promised me, because he was certainly an Orthodox, believer, and since the troops were leaving for the battlefield, there was always a prayer service. So I made this prayer service - in the Gospel, with the help of a believer, I found words dedicated to “our howls”, and put music on these words, as is usually done. You will hear this prayer in the middle of the march. And then you will hear the victorious procession, the return of our troops from the battlefield to the salute, and again you will hear the first part, again the return to social life. In the space of, I don’t know, I think, five or four and a half minutes, the life of this glorious general Miloradovich will flash before you. This is a march, this is a Russian march, I wrote it.

There is nothing so reprehensible in it, regarding, as they say, excuse the expression, a boot - there is no such thing. This is a very secular, very beautiful, I think, march. By the way, many conductors love it and often perform it, although it is difficult to perform.

ABOUT MILITARY MUSICIANS OF RUSSIA

Our country is the only one where there is a well-functioning system for training military conductors. Abroad, they become people who already have a higher education musical education and have passed certification physical training. And our army trains its own musicians. First, secondary education - the Moscow Military Music School accepts ninth-graders, after graduation they can enter the Institute of Military Conductors on the basis of the Military University of the Ministry of Defense. Such a system of training and education produces a specialist familiar with army life from the inside. Coming to the orchestra as a lieutenant, he already knows what and how to do. This has a positive effect on the skill of our orchestras. For example, during the parade on Red Square, 1000 military musicians play about 40 compositions by heart. Foreigners are amazed at the synchronicity and beauty of the performance.

VIDEO SHOWS WITH VALERY KHALILOV

Russian culture has lost an outstanding musical figure. A talented musician, Khalilov made brilliant career, having gone from an “ordinary” military music service to the chief military conductor of the Armed Forces and the leader of the country’s largest ensemble. He also proved himself as an organizer of the army musical life, and not only the army.

Path to the top

Valery Khalilov was born on January 30, 1952 in the Uzbek city of Termez in the family of a military conductor. I have been studying music since I was 4 years old. At the age of 9, when the family moved to Moscow, he entered the Moscow Military Music School (now the Military Music School).

“The education they provided was excellent,” Khalilov recalled. - And the conditions there were excellent: the school was located in Serebryany Bor. A very clear regime: exercise, meals on a schedule, evening checks, guards, barracks, strict discipline. In general, a normal military situation. The army spirit was in everything. At first I really wanted to go home. Imagine, a child lives in a family, with mom and dad, and then they shaved his head and put him in a barracks. But we adapted over time.

Many of my classmates play in leading orchestras in the world. They took the most talented, most musical. The competition was 50 people per place. They came from all over Soviet Union. Each class was made into a military band. Over seven years of study we have achieved high professional level: regular concerts, performances, internships. But the military parade left the greatest impression in my memory. The first time I walked through Red Square as part of the famous company of drummers opening the military parade was in 1967. He was a guide."

V. Khalilov’s younger brother Alexander, now a colonel, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, composer, teacher at the Military Institute (military conductors) of the Military University of the Russian Ministry of Defense, also became a military conductor.

In 1975, Valery Khalilov graduated from the military conducting department at the Moscow Conservatory and was appointed conductor of the orchestra of the Pushkin Higher Military Command School of Air Defense Radio Electronics. In 1981, after the orchestra under his direction took first place in the competition of military orchestras of the Leningrad Military District, Khalilov was appointed teacher of the conducting department of the military conducting faculty at the Moscow Conservatory, and had the academic title of associate professor.

Since 1984, Khalilov served in the directorate of the military band service of the USSR Armed Forces: officer of the military band service, senior officer, deputy head of the military band service.

From 2002 to 2016 - Head of the Military Band Service of the Russian Federation - Chief Military Conductor. Since May 2015 - member of the board of trustees of the Academy of Festive Culture.

Chief military musician

According to generally accepted ideas, military music consists of parades, marches, anthems, a brass band, choral singing under the drill step. All this happened in the life of the hereditary military conductor Khalilov from childhood. And it became the main thing of his life.

“The profession of a military musician should always be in demand,” said Khalilov. - The orchestra comes first in the army. When I rehearse with an orchestra, I always tell the musicians: we rehearse in order to go on stage and play. And play well! We need to make sure that whoever is sitting in the hall or standing on the parade ground remembers our performance as one of the best memories of his life. First of all, I would like to see the ranks of military musicians replenished with qualified personnel. To have more young people. But many brass departments closed in the 1990s. This influenced military music.

And yet, much is being done to revive it. We receive funds, high-status orchestras are equipped with excellent instruments. And we continue to provide instruments to the orchestras of remote garrisons. After all, an instrument for a military musician is the same weapon.”

As music director and conductor Khalilov conducted parades on Red Square. Conducted thousand-voice combined brass bands. And the impressive sound of patriotic uplifting music, this grandiose spectacle itself, coupled with the movement of military equipment, greatly increased the feeling of the power and might of Russia and its army.

Khalilov organized military music festivals “Amur Waves” in Khabarovsk, “March of the Century” in Tambov, International festival in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.

His main “festival brainchild” was the unique “Spasskaya Tower” forum, which has been held in Moscow, on Red Square, since 2009: Khalilov was its artistic director (before that, in 2007, also under the leadership of Khalilov, the “Kremlin Dawn” festival was held) . Moscow had never known such colorful and representative forums before. Over the past 10 years, military bands from more than 40 countries have participated in the festival. Those who want to see with their own eyes this magnificent spectacle, made possible thanks to the initiative, creative ideas and managerial gift of Valery Khalilov, come to Moscow from all over the world.

Valery Khalilov expanded and multiplied the very concept of the profession of a military conductor, its functions, scale, scope professional activity. He was an innovator, a pioneer in this field. Khalilov also proved himself as a symphony conductor. He headed the Symphony Orchestra of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, created in 1990 within the system of the Central Military Orchestra of the Ministry of Defense. Under the leadership of Khalilov, this group has taken a worthy place among Moscow groups; for many years it has been participating in the subscriptions of the Moscow Philharmonic with classical programs (in particular, it has become permanent partner Zhanna Dozortseva in her day passes). Collaborated with V. Khalilov and the orchestra famous performers: pianists B. Berezovsky, A. Diev, S. Tarasov, many others.

Each program was carefully constructed and masterfully executed.

At the same time, Khalilov enriched the repertoire of both the brass band and the symphony: songs of the Soviet era, jazz compositions, own writings(marches, lyrical plays, songs).

V. Khalilov’s last concert in Moscow was an evening at the Philharmonic-2 on November 27 in the Moscow State Philharmonic Theater subscription “Symphonic hits”, with an exquisite panorama of French and Spanish music (Three intermissions from Bizet’s “Carmen”, Fauré’s “Pavane”, Concerto “Aranjuez” for guitar and orchestra by J. Rodrigo, “Valse” and “Bolero” by Ravel). I was involved in sports until my last days...”

Valery Khalilov was awarded the Order "For Service to the Motherland in the Armed Forces of the USSR" III degree, the Order of Honor, and medals of the USSR and Russia. In 2010 he was awarded the military rank of lieutenant general.

There are irreplaceable ones

Everyone who knew Valery Khalilov speaks of him as a sensitive, responsive person who radiated kindness and light. He sacredly honored the memory of his predecessors - outstanding masters of military brass music.

Pianist Andrei Diev recalls how much Khalilov did to perpetuate the memory of his father, the outstanding military conductor B.A. Dieva, whose works he has recorded on CD more than once.

Khalilov's classmate, associate professor at the Russian Academy of Music. Gnessin S. Reshetov speaks of him as a man of “the highest dignity. He always set the highest moral and professional standards for himself, and we all respected him for that. Valery Khalilov was a very talented composer. His nobility, his honor, his sublimity were visible in his music. He was a real military conductor - always fit, slender,
2016 became a new year for Valery Khalilov creative takeoff. In April, he was appointed to the position of head of the ensemble - artistic director of the Academic Song and Dance Ensemble of the Russian Army named after A.V. Alexandrova. In October he was elected president of the newly created Spiritual Society of Russia.

It was impossible to imagine that this year, which had turned out so happily for the musician, would end so tragically.

Alexander Sladkovsky, artistic director State Orchestra of the Republic of Tatarstan, student of Khalilov: “This was my first conductor... He was then a teacher in the conducting department and was preparing our orchestra for the parade. He was very attentive to everyone at the military conducting department, but he was the first to predict a career for me (a 17-year-old boy), saying: “Boy, you have a great future.” And his words came true for me...

He is very versatile person. The scale is incredible: public figure, composer who wrote the most different music... I have an incredible number of memories connected with him, I am very sad...”

Denis Matsuev: “I knew Valery Khalilov well. Alexandrov's ensemble is business card our country. An international brand that represents Russia and is associated with Russia, a guarantee of success, a guarantee of a full house, this is the history of our country, highest level... And Khalilov is a huge professional who performed absolutely any music, masterfully conducted and symphony orchestras, was universal in different repertoires. The loss is incredible. A nightmare that is impossible to believe in” (“MK”).

Joseph Kobzon: “Of course, Alexandrov’s ensemble will live. New forces will join in, singers and musicians... But Khalilov will not be there. A man who was madly in love with orchestral and military music. And, of course, military music and we, the artists who were happy to perform with the military ensemble, will miss Maestro Khalilov with a smile on his face. Everyone loved him: musicians, colleagues, and all those who approached Khalilov’s conductor’s stand. Because he was very friendly, very professional, very kind...” (“Izvestia”).

Farewell maestro

The funeral service for Valery Khalilov took place on January 14 at the Epiphany Cathedral in Yelokhov. Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeev) of Volokolamsk served. Then in Concert hall Ensemble named after. Aleksandrova held a civil funeral service and farewell on Zemledelchesky Lane.

On the same day, the performance of Metropolitan Hilarion’s “Christmas Oratorio” at Crocus City Hall was dedicated to the memory of V. Khalilov.

January 16 V.M. Khalilov, according to his will, was buried in the cemetery of the Arkhangelsky Pogost tract near the village of Novinki, Kirzhach district, Vladimir region. Novinki is the birthplace of the conductor's great-grandmother, grandmother and mother. He often visited here as a child, several years ago he built a house where he loved to relax, and at the entrance to the village, a chapel was opened at the expense of Valery Mikhailovich. Khalilov last visited here on December 11, 2016, two weeks before his death.

In the Sorrowful Monastery, Archbishop Evstafiy of Alexander and Yuryev-Polsky celebrated a memorial service. A lithium was held at the cemetery, followed by a civil funeral service.

The Central Military Band of the Ministry of Defense took part in the ceremony. The military orchestra of the Vladimir garrison performed Adagio by V. Khalilov, written specifically for mourning ceremonies.

General Valery Khalilov was buried with everyone military honors, under volleys of fireworks.

Memory

By order of the Government of the Russian Federation dated December 30, 2016, the name of Valery Khalilov was assigned to the Moscow Military Music School.

Governor of the Vladimir region Svetlana Orlova announced that one of the streets in Kirzhach will be named after Khalilov.

From now on, the Tuvan State Philharmonic and the International Military Music Festival “Amur Waves” in Khabarovsk will bear the conductor’s name.