The music of Vladimir Dashkevich is well known even to those residents of the former USSR who do not know the name of the composer himself - his Overture to the series.
"Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson" It has long been practically the personification of the foggy England of the times of Queen Victoria, mediocre inspectors and a brilliant private investigator with his deductive method and an inseparable friend-doctor.
Vladimir Sergeyevich was born in 1934 in Moscow on January 20. His father was from nobles, in 1938 he was arrested on a false denunciation and sent to camps, in 1949, barely freed, arrested again, and released only in 1954. The family lived poor, it was impossible to receive music education, but the mother of the future composer, having got a job in a music school, tried to attach her son to learn music. Vladimir learned notes, but did not study further, without even assuming that in the future it will be very useful to him.
He graduated from the Moscow Institute of Fine Chemical Technology, where he entered in 1950, received a diploma of chemical engineer. But as a teenager, he fell in love with music, often went to the theater, learned many operas by heart, and when, on occasion, a neighbor’s piano came to his room in the communal apartment where the family lived, he remembered with considerable pleasure the notes he had learned ten years earlier, and became, to his surprise, obsessed with making music.
Meanwhile, after graduating from the institute, he was sent to work at the Sangigiyena factory, but the music still did not leave him. In 1957, he enrolled in the courses of amateur composers organized by the Moscow Union of Composers, where he met some prominent Soviet composers, among whom was Nikolai Karetnikov – after two years of training at this seminar, he made it clear to the amateur composer that he had a direct path to become a professional composer. Despite the lack of musical education, Dashkevich underwent preliminary training in theoretical disciplines, passed exams and was admitted to the Gnessin Institute, where he studied at the University.
Aram Khachaturyan (He was not admitted to the Conservatory for the exam). He studied in absentia, for some time combining study and work as a chemical engineer.
By the time he graduated from the institute, in 1965, he had received his first order for film music, or rather for the cartoon “The Bear on the Road.” In the future, the musical career of the talented composer confidently went up, he wrote music for cinema and cartoons a lot and successfully (in his creative biography there are about a hundred of them), and also composed serious symphonic works and vocal cycles, among which the most famous is with the singer.
Yelena Kamburova .
Vladimir Sergeyevich has made a brilliant musical career and is one of the largest Russian composers.