The author of this autobiographical book is the son of the famous Soviet conductor Alexander Gauk and himself, in turn, a musician, the gifted pianist Pavel Gauk. Prone to ironic everyday writing, he gives a many-sided portrait of the inhabitants and frequent visitors of the Bolshoi Theater house on Gorky Street. Not without humor, he describes childhood impressions of «eccentric» world celebrities: Emil Gilels and Aram Khachaturian, Lev Oborin and Svyatoslav Knushevitsky, Evgeny Svetlanov and Mstislav Rostropovich.
The author of this autobiographical book is the son of the famous Soviet conductor Alexander Gauk and himself, in turn, a musician, the gifted pianist Pavel Gauk. Prone to ironic everyday writing, he gives a many-sided portrait of the inhabitants and frequent visitors of the Bolshoi Theater house on Gorky Street. Not without humor, he describes childhood impressions of «eccentric» world celebrities: Emil Gilels and Aram Khachaturian, Lev Oborin and Svyatoslav Knushevitsky, Evgeny Svetlanov and Mstislav Rostropovich. He frankly talks about the difficult relationship with his father and domineering mother. The third important aspect of the book is the years spent abroad in search of artistic happiness, and the return to the new Russia, to the walls of his native home, with an understanding of how much has changed during the absence of the owner. Fate has made a new round — and it is not easy to get used to it.
Classics-XXI, 760 p.
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