Biography Budashkin

The Budashkins family loved folk music, the father of the future composer taught his son musical literacy, playing folk instruments. In the year, the family moved to Chita, where Budashkin studied at the FZU, worked in a forge, played in an amateur spiritual orchestra and an orchestra of Russian folk instruments in a red corner of a car repair plant. In the year, he goes to Moscow and enters to study at the Rabfak of the Moscow Conservatory.

In the conservatory, N. Budashkin was engaged in the class of R. Glier, then N. during his studies at the conservatory, he created a “Mordovian suite” for a symphonic orchestra, the first symphony and the widely known “festive overture” in the year graduated from the conservatory in the class of the composition, then graduate school and worked in the conservatory at the instrumentation department.

In G. During the Great Patriotic War, N. Budashkin serves on ships of the Baltic Fleet and writes songs about the combat, severe tests of the life of Soviet sailors: “Like a dawn”, “Razeirochka”, “Red Flot smile”. In the year he was awarded the Order of the Red Star and the medal "For the Defense of Leningrad". After the war, N. Budashkin connects his fate with the State Academic Russian People's Orchestra.

In the years, he was an assistant to the head of the orchestra, for whom he wrote many works and attracted to work on the repertoire of talented Soviet composers: A. Mosolov, L. Knipper, P. During these years, Budashkin created: two fantasies on B. Participation in the creative life of the Osipovo orchestra continued for many years. He was in the staff of the collective up to a year, as part of the Art Council with breaks of up to a year.

Budashkin wrote the music fruitfully for theatrical productions. So, together with his longtime friend Boris Mokrousov, whom he met in the conservatory, they wrote music for the production of the Moscow Satire Theater "Wedding with the Dowry".

Mokrousov belongs to the authorship of three songs to the poems of A. Fatyanov: “The steppe blooms with forests”, “I won’t boast of a sweet one” and a waltz “on your porch”. Budashkin on these topics is written orchestra music, and in addition, bayan tunes, dancing, ditties and suffering, which are performed in the course of action are composed. In them, he used typical popular turnover and melodies.

For a long time, the composer was connected with the Little Theater, where among his works the music stood out for the play “The Power of Darkness”. He is the author of music for theatrical productions: the “governor” by A. Ostrovsky, “Undergrowth” by D. Fonvizin, “gentlemen Golovlev” by M. Saltykov-Shchedrin and others. The fairy tale “Morozko” was awarded the International Prize at the International Film Festival of Children's Films, Venice, in the year Nikolai Pavlovich goes to the Moscow State Institute of Culture, where he is elected, where he is chosen.

An assistant professor is approved in the year in the scientific rank of professor in the department of instrumentation and reading scores. The music of N. Budashkin was invariably directed to a wide audience. His inspired creativity, deeply going into the Russian folk musical culture, earned him love and respect in our country and in many foreign countries. The democratic orientation was manifested at him at all stages of creative activity, and above all, in the works for the Russian People's Orchestra.

He brought a high composer culture to this area, revealed new horizons. The activities of the talented composer were marked by many government awards: he twice became a laureate of the State Prize, awarded orders and medals, G.