Bachelor's thesis

Degree programme in Music

Specialisation: Musician

2012

Artem Zenev

A: "THE BALL", THESIS

CONCERT OF ARTEM ZENEV'S
COMPOSITIONS
B: THE RUSSIAN SEVEN-
STRING GUITAR
BACHELOR´S THESIS |
TURKU UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES

Degree programme in Music | Specialisation: Musician

Completion of the thesis| Total number of pages 25

Instructor(s) Soili Lehtinen

Artem Zenev

THE RUSSIAN SEVEN-STRING GUITAR

My thesis includes two separate parts, which are completely independent.

Part A is artistic. It is the main part of my thesis. I will perform my own
compositions: “Monkey”, “People in the sky”, “The ball”, “Pillows”, “Solovki”.
Part B is in the written form. It is dedicated to the Russian seven-string guitar,
the history of the instrument and the main representatives of the seven-string
guitar tradition.

KEYWORDS: seven-string guitar, traditions, Russia, Sikhra, Vysotsky, Orekhov.

OPINNÄYTETYÖ (AMK) | TIIVISTELMÄ
TURUN AMMATTIKORKEAKOULU
Koulutusohjelman nimi | Suuntautumisvaihtoehdon nimi Muusikko

Opinnäytetyön valmistumisajankohta | Sivumäärä 25

Ohjaaja(t) Soili Lehtinen

Artem Zenev

VENÄLÄINEN SEITSEMÄN-KIELINEN KITARA

Opinnäytetyöni koostuu kahdesta itsenäisestä osasta.

A-osassa, joka on taiteellinen osuus, esitän omia sävellyksiäni: “Monkey”,
“People in the sky”, ”The ball”, ”Pillows”, ”Solovki” 28 marraskuuta klo 12
Crichton salissa.
B-osassa, joka on työni kirjallinen osuus, käsittelen venäläisen seitsemän
kielisen kitaran historiaa instrumenttinä sekä seitsemän kielisen kitaran tradition
edustajia.
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1 INTRODUCTION 3
2 THE INSTRUMENT 6
3 WHO CREATED THE RUSSIAN SEVEN-STRING GUITAR? 10
ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED. TRADITIONS
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4.1. Andrey Osipovich Sikhra

4.2. Mikhail Timofeevech Visotsky

5 THE TWENTIETH CENTURY 16

5.1 Sergey Orekhov

6 IMPORTANCE OF THE NATIONAL TRADITIONS FOR THE MODERN WORLD 20

7 APPENDIX 21
8 SOURCE MATERIAL 25
1 INTRODUCTION

My thesis includes two separate parts.

The goal of my artistic part is self-actualization as a composer and performer.
A few words about my compositions:
Monkey.
The main idea of this piece is “Let us be monkeys and let the monkeys be
human beings”.
People in the sky.
This is an absurdist, funny work.
The ball.
In this piece I use theme of sphere. Sphere is a very ancient symbol. In my work
sphere presented as a children’s ball. I was interested in different sculptures
and pictures of sphere in modern and classical art and decided to work with the
theme of sphere in order to express it with the musical tongue.
Pillows.
These are brocken pieces of a childhood. Naive soul of a child, which is
brocken by the iron gate of our crazy world, tried to understand why there is so
much horror, madness and coldness in this world.
Solovki.
This piece is about the historical place in Russia.
The general idea of all those pieces is to make an attempt to look at the modern
world with the help of children’s eyes.
The written part is about the Russian seven-string guitar.
In our days the guitar is one of the most popular instrument in the world. There
are many different guitar schools in different countries. Such as the flamenco
guitar, the Hawaiian guitar, the Latin-American guitar, the American blues-
guitar, the Russian seven-string guitar. Every guitar school has its own specific,
own history and own heroes. The history of every guitar school is inseparable
from history of great composers and great players.
The Russian seven-string guitar was the integral part of Russian urban life in
the nineteenth century. It is impossible to separate it from the Russian
romance. (Russian romance or Russian Gypsy song (Russian: романс) is a
type of sentimental art song with hints of Gypsy influence that was developed in
Imperial Russia by such composers as Aleksander Alyabyev (1787-1851),
Aleksander Varlamov (1801-48), and Aleksander Gurilyov (1803-58))
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_romance (visited 20.11.2012). People used
the seven-string guitar a lot for accompaniment. The romance was a very
popular genre at that time in Russia. Many great composers such as,
Aleksander Alyabyev, Aleksey Verstovsky, Aleksander Varlamov and Petr
Chaikovsky composed romances. They took poems of great poets and wrote
music for them. The popularity of romance was one of the main reasons of the
popularity of the seven-string guitar.
But at the same time this connection between the seven-string guitar and the
Russian romance had its opposite side. For rather a long time the guitar wasn’t
considered as a self-sufficient concert instrument such as the violin, the piano
and other academic instruments. The guitar in Russia was mainly an amateur
instrument. Most of the guitar-players were self-educated persons. There wasn’t
any kind of guitar-school in the academic sence, like those which exist
nowadays. The mastership of guitar playing was straight passing from teacher
to student, it is possible to compare it with private lessons in our days. Also
sometimes guitarists played together on musical events and exchanged
experience with each other, it looked like jam-session in our time.
At the same time the seven-string guitar always had a very serious rival - the
classical guitar, or how people in Russia called it at that time «The Spanish
guitar». The classical guitar was also quite popular in the 19th century in
Russia, sometimes it was even more popular than the seven-string guitar. It
looked like confrontation between two schools. Interest for the seven-string
guitar was sometimes more, and sometimes less. For example almost all the
20th century people preferred the classical guitar to the seven-string guitar. And
only a small group of enthusiasts tried to carry on the tradition of playing the
seven-string guitar.
In our days many professional guitarists turn to the seven-string guitar tradition.
In Russia nowadays there are festivals and competitions of the seven-string
guitar. People show an interest to their culture and to the seven-string guitar as
a part of Russian music history. In this thesis I would like to introduce to you the
seven-string guitar and tell you about the main persons of this tradition.
The goal of my written part is to make a historical overview of the Russian
seven-string guitar and also to introduce the seven-string guitar to the classical-
guitar players. I’m sure that every country must preserve their national traditions
because it makes our world more interesting and rich.
I decided to choose this subject because I think there is something in the
seven-string guitar tradition what can enrich the classical guitar and even
improve it. A good example of it to my mind is one of the most popular pieces
for the classical guitar “Souvenir de Russie” by Ferdinando Sor. He composed
this piece after he had visited Russia where he had listened Russian seven-
string guitar-players and had met one of the most brilliant seven-string guitar
players – Mikhail Vysotsky. Stylistically “Souvenir de Russie” is close to the
Russian guitar music. So, if the great musician Ferdinando Sor was inspired by
the seven-string guitar tradition maybe contemporary classical-guitar players
also can take something useful from it.
In this work I would like to raise the interest for the Russian seven-string guitar
among the classical guitar players.
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2 THE INSTRUMENT

The Russian seven-string guitar is not just a guitar with one extra string like we
can find in any music shop all around the World. The meaning is that not all
seven-string guitars are the seven-string guitar. The Russian seven-string guitar
is an independent musical instrument with its own traditions, techniques, and its
special sound.

As it is clear form the name of the instrument, the seven-string guitar has seven
strings. The standard seven-string guitar tuning is 1-d, 2-h, 3-g, 4-d, 5-H, 6-G,
7-D. This tuning helps to play long arpeggios.

Alternate tunings include:

d – h – g – d – c – G – D (for comfortable playing in C major and C minor)

d – a# - g – d – c – G – D (this tuning is used a lot by Sergey Nikitin – a person,

who belongs to so called “Russian bards movement”, one of the most
important figures of this movement was world famous Vladimir Vyssotsky.
Sergey Nikitin was one of the few Russian bards, who played the seven-string
guitar – nowadays the majority of them play the 6-string guitar. Nikitin is also
known because of the fact that one of his pieces was played by Paul Mauriat
Orchestra.)

d – b – g – d – B – G – D (G minor tuning; used a lot by gypses)

The strings are located closer to each other than on the classical guitar.

The sounding board is usually more hard than it is on the classical guitar. And it
makes a sustain longer. Because of a long sustain it is easier to use vibrato. At
the same time portamento sounds deep and tight. Usually the sounding board
is made from spruce.

The fretboard.

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Width of the fretboard near the nut could be from 43 to 54 mm. The distance
between strings on the saddle could variate from 7,80 mm to 12 mm between
two nearby strings. Thickness of fretboard is usually the same as on the
classical guitar. The length from the saddle till nut varies from 610 to 650 mm.

The body.

Usually the body of the seven-string guitar is made from maple. Shape of body
can be different:

1. Narrow and prolonged body.

2. “The Krasnoshekovsky style”: very narrow in the middle of the body
(where sound hole located) and quite wide on both ends.
3. It can also have the same shape like the classical guitar.

One of the main differences between the seven-string guitar and the classical
guitar is the connection of the fretboard and the body. Traditionally the
fretboard is connected to the body by the screw. It gives a possibility to regulate
a distance between strings and the fretboard with the special key.

Strings.

Strings can be made of steel or nylon.

(http://www.oldguitars.ru/article_2.html visited 05.11.2012)

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The seven-string guitar

The photo is taken from

http://www.slavyanskaya-kultura.ru/news/culture/semistrunaja-gitara-v-rosi.html

(visited 05.11.2012)

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Seven-string guitar made by Jacov Razmislov (begining of 20th century)

The photo is taken from:

http://vk.com/friends?act=invite&group_id=22539107#/photo-
1057878_126379581

(visited 05.11.2012)

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3 WHO CREATED THE RUSSIAN SEVEN STRING-

GUITAR?

It is impossible to find the only one right answer to this question. Different
sources give us different information, sometimes quite the opposite.

In the second half of the 18th century in Russia there were many types of guitar.
There were the six-string guitar, the five-string guitar, the four-string guitar, the
guitar with double strings, the guitar with two necks and many other
modifications. Also there were some related instruments such as the lute, the
mandolin, the bandura which were imported by the people from other countries.
People experimented with the shape of instruments, with the amount of strings,
necks, and of course they experimented a lot with different kinds of tunings. It
was possible because in Russia there wasn’t any guitar school like in Europe
and most of guitarists were self-made men.

(http://www.lute.ru/russianguitar/volmanbook/part1.htm visited 06.11.2012)

Many sources tell us that Andrey Osipovich Sikhra (1771-1850) was the creator
of the Russian seven-string guitar. For example M.A.Stahovich (1819-1858)
wrote that A.O.Sikhra made the seven-string guitar from the six-string guitar
because he wanted to add one deeper bass string. In M.A.Stahovich’s opinion
A.O.Sikhra wanted to improve the six-string guitar and that’s why he added the
seventh string and changed the tuning. Almost the same thing about A.O.Sikhra
wrote A.S.Famincin. He wrote: «Sikhra changed the tuning by adding the
seventh string, and the instrument became closer to the harp, which was
Sikhra’s specialisation». It is impossible to confirm by the documents, that
A.O.Sikhra was the creator of the Russian seven-string guitar, but many
guitarists in the 19th century share this opinion.

(http://www.narodny.info/history/738-gitara.html visited 06.11.2012)

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4 TRADITIONS

The seven-string guitar had two schools or two traditions. The Moscow School
and the St. Petersburg school. The founder of the St. Petersburg school was
Andrey Osipovich Sikhra and the founder of the Moscow School was Mikhail
Timofeevich Vysotsky.

The St.Petersburg school was more academic, and oriented to European

classical music. The music of A.O. Sikhra generally sounds very European.
Very often he took Russian folk melodies and composed variations in
accordance with the European academic rules. But the school was very
popular and very important for the development of the seven-string guitar.

The Moscow school was more national. The music of M.T.Vysotsky (don’t mix
up with the famous Russian bard Vladimir Vysotsky) was full of national
melodies, national character, and the style of composition was closer to national
school of composition. The Moscow tradition of the seven-string guitar also was
very important for the development of the seven-string guitar.

(http://www.narodny.info/history/738-gitara.html visited 06.11.2012 and Sergey

Rudnev ”The Russian Style of the classical guitar-playing” pages 199, 201)

4.1 Andrey Osipovich Sikhra (1771-1850)

A. O. Sikhra - the founder of the St. Petersburg seven-string guitar tradition. He

was born in Vilnius in 1771 to a music teacher’s family. From his youth he gave
concerts as the virtuoso harp-player. But soon he became devoted to the guitar,
which became his favorite instrument. In Vilnius he made his first seven-string
guitar. In the end of 1790s he moved to Moscow where he gave a lot of
concerts and found a lot of fans. The audience was interested in his playing a
lot. Moscow became the place where he could popularize his ideas of guitar
playing. After 1812 he moved to St. Petersburg where he lived until his death.
He was a very talented musician and teacher. His playing was brilliant, and his
concerts were always full of audience. He published many arrangements and
original works for the seven-string guitar. In 1800 he published his first guitar-

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magazine called «Journal pour la Guittare a sept cordes par A. Sychra» that
contained a lot of arrangements of Russian folk-songs and transcriptions. The
magazine had a success and was issued two times. After this good
experience he published his other magazines for the seven-string guitar until
1838. In 1850 he published his major pedagogical works ”The theory and
practice of the seven-string guitar” and «The Practical Rules in 4 exercises».
A.O.Sikhra was the first who made the seven-string guitar the academic solo
instrument. He made a lot for the seven-string guitar both as a performer and a
teacher. Thanks to his great activity and great results many musicians in the
19th century called him “the creator of the Russian seven-string guitar”. He died
in 1850 in St. Petersburg. (Sergey Rudnev ”The Russian Style of the classical
guitar-playing” pages 201, 202) (http://www.narodny.info/history/738-gitara.html
visited 07.11.2012) (http://www.abc-guitars.com/pages/sichra.htm visited
07.11.2012)

A.O. Sikhra.

The picture is taken from http://www.abc-guitars.com/pages/sichra.htm )

(visited 07.11.2012)

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A.O. Sikhra’s major pedagogical work ”The theory and practice of the seven-
string guitar”

(The photo is taken from http://www.abc-guitars.com/pages/sichra.htm visited

07.11.2012)

A.O. Sikhra’s guitar-magazine.

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(The photo is taken from http://www.abc-guitars.com/pages/sichra.htm visited

07.11.2012)

4.2 Mikhail Timofeevich Vysotsky (1791-1837)

M. T. Vysotsky – the Russian virtuoso guitarist and composer, the founder of

the Moscow seven-string guitar tradition.

(the picture is taken from http://www.lute.ru/guitar/Vysotsky.htm visited

08.11.2012)

He was born in 1791 to the family of a serf in the place called Ochakovo.
Vysotsky began to study the guitar himself. In 1807 he got the letter of
enfranchisement and in 1813 he moved to Moscow. It was time of the great
victory after the war with Napoleon Bonaparte. In the atmosphere of
enthusiasm and rising interest to the national culture Vysotsky became very
famous quite soon. Among his fans were very famous and respected people
such as great pianists Aleksander Dubuc and John Field and the great Russian
classical poet M.Y.Lermontov. When Ferdinando Sor visited Moscow he was
invited to one music event because the Russian audience was very curious
about his guitar playing. Vysotsky was invited too. When F.Sor finished his
concert the audience asked Vysotsky to show his skills. Vysotsky took the guitar

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and started to improvise. F.Sor was very impressed and after that Vysotsky and
Sor became good friends.

Vysotsky was a great improviser. Russian guitarists had a tradition - they

improvised before the concert begins. Those improvisations before the concert
were called “probi”. Every guitarist before he started to play his concert usually
improvised something. It was kind of warming up in the view of audience and
during his warming up the guitarist showed his improvisation skills. Vysotsky’s
contemporaries wrote that his improvisations were always brilliant, innovative
and full of musicality.

Also he composed a lot of pieces in popular genres of those days such as

mazurka, polonese, waltz.

Thanks to Vysotsky the seven-string guitar become very famous among people.

He died in 1837 in Moscow. . (Sergey Rudnev ”The Russian Style of the

classical guitar-playing” page 199)

(http://www.narodny.info/history/738-gitara.html visited 08.11.2012)

(http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C2%FB%F1%EE%F2%F1%EA%E8%E9%2C_%
CC%E8%F5%E0%E8%EB_%D2%E8%EC%EE%F4%E5%E5%E2%E8%F7
visited 08.11.2012 and 09.11.2012)

(http://www.abc-guitars.com/pages/vysotski.htm visited 08.11.2012)

In my opinion both schools are very important for the development of the
Russian seven-string guitar.

The St. Petersburg school enriches it by European academic rules and because
of that makes it closer to the classical guitar world.
But the Moskow school gives to the instrument ethnic flavour and that makes it
interesting and original.

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5 THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

In the twentieth century interest for the seven-string guitar fell down. It
happened because of great popularity of the classical guitar all around the
World. Many of Russian guitarists left the seven-string guitar and turned to the
classical guitar. The other reason was money. It was very difficult to live as a
guitar-player. There was a very small amount of places in the USSR where
guitar-players could work as teachers especially in the first half of the
twentieth century. It was time when in the whole country sounded music of
Sergey Prokofiev and Dmitry Shostakovich. It was time of big orchestras and
choirs. It was the golden age of the violin and the piano but not of the guitar.
The seven-string guitar become a marginal instrument. But the tradition of the
seven-string guitar playing hasn’t gone. Some of the guitar-players were
carrying the tradition of the Russian guitar.

The most famous seven-string guitar-player in twentieth century was Sergey

Orekhov. He was so brilliant musician that even in the times of marginalization
of the seven-string guitar his concerts was full of audience.

5.1.1 Sergey Orekhov.

In my opinion the history of the Russian seven-string guitar would be absolutely

incomplete without Sergey Orekhov. He was genius of the seven-string guitar,
the great improviser and performer. His role for development of the seven-string
guitar tradition can be compared with the role of Paco de Lucia for the
flamenco-guitar school. But the tragedy was that he happened to be in the
wrong place at the wrong time, compared with Paco de Lucia.

Biography.

Sergey Orekhov was born on the 23rd of October in 1935 in Moscow. On his
16th birthday his uncle presented him a guitar. He started to learn to play the
guitar by himself. Later Vladimir Mitrofanovich Kuznecov (1887-1953) became
his private teacher.

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When he was in the army he fell ill with polyarthritis. But he had so much
passion for the seven-string guitar that it didn’t ruin his music carier. His
technique was still perfect even with polyarthritis.

(Polyarthritis is any type of arthritis which involves 5 or more joints

simultaneously. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyarthritis ) (visited 10.11.2012)

(Arthritis (from Greek arthro-, joint + -itis, inflammation; plural: arthritides) is a

form of joint disorder that involves inflammation of one or more joints.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthritis) (visited 10.11.2012)

In 1952 he started to work with a very famous gipsy-romance singer Raisa

Zhemchyzhnaya. They worked together for 7 years.

In 1962 he entered the Moscow Musical College named after Gnesiny. But
because of the fact that he was already a concert guitar-player he didn’t have
time to study. And he had to stop his studying.

His wife Nadezhda Tishininova was also a very famous romance-singer. Sergey
Orekhov and his wife worked together as a guitar-player and a singer for more
than twenty years. They had a lot of concerts all around the USSR.

Also he gave concerts as a solo-player in Germany, Poland, France,

Yugoslavia, Bolgaria.

In 1986 the Soviet Record Company Melodia published his only official album
“The seven-string guitar”.

The album includes 11 tracks.

In 1997 in the USA Matanya Ophee published a book of works by Sergey

Orekhov called “Troika”. (Matanya Ophee is an American musicologist, guitar-
player, publisher).

On the 19th of August in 1998 Sergey Orekhov died.

(Sergey Rudnev ”The Russian Style of the classical guitar-playing” page 201)

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(http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%F0%E5%F5%EE%E2,_%D1%E5%F0%E3%
E5%E9_%C4%EC%E8%F2%F0%E8%E5%E2%E8%F7 visited 10.11.2012)

(http://oreshinguitars.com/gitarnye-stati/nadya-tishininova-rasskazyvaet-o-
svoem-muzhe-sergee-orexove/ visited 10.11.2012)

(http://www.abc-guitars.com/pages/orechov.htm visited 10.11.2012)

(http://sergei-orekhov.blogspot.fi/2009/12/blog-post.html visited 10.11.2012)

Sergey Orekhov

(The photo is taken from http://albomguitar.narod.ru/Sergey_Orehov.htm)

(visited 10.11.2012)

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From left to right: Henik Sechkin (a friend of S.Orekhov), Sergey Orekhov,

Nadezhda Tishininova (S.Orekhov’s wife).

(The photo is taken from http://albomguitar.narod.ru/Sergey_Orehov.htm)

(visited 10.11.2012)

The cover of the only official album of Sergey Orekhov.

The photo is taken from

http://www.israbox.com/1146408413-sergei-orekhov-seven-stringed-guitar-
1986.html (visited 10.11.2012)

Here is the video from his concert in Poland:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeW3p8jwTLI

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6 IMPORTANCE OF NATIONAL TRADITIONS FOR THE

MODERN WORLD

In my opinion the history of culture is not only the process of changing in the
world. It is also the process of saving knowlege and experience of the previous
generations. Culture is the way of passing the information from one generation
to another. National culture is the key for self-identification. And self-
identification is very important for us if we don’t want to turn into the grey mass
in our multicultural World. In every culture we can find the elements which
make one culture diffirent from another. And it enriches our World. If we want to
keep this variety of cultures we must know our traditions. We must remember
those who were before us.

We are living in the epoch of globalization. Some people say that globalization
is bad, the other say that it’s good. I don’t know who of them is right. But I know
one thing, that globalization is a real fact. We can’t turn the time back. Our world
would never be the same as it had been before the process of globalization
started.

One of the most important tasks of the humanity is to save allhuman values,
which help us to stay as human beings, and these values took their beginning
in traditional cultures, which can disappear in the reality of the modern world.
But to destroy national cultures is the same as to destroy humanity itself.

For everyone who is interested in Russian repertoire for the classical guitar I
would recommend the book of Sergey Rudnev ”The Russian Style of the
classical guitar-playing” (In Russian: Сергей Руднев «Русский стиль игры на
классической гитаре»). In this book you can find a lot of the seven-string guitar
transcriptions for the classical guitar.

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APPENDIX
In my opinion as it’s impossible to imagine history of rock guitar without Jimi
Hendrix, Jimmy Page, and Ritchie Blackmore and history of the classical guitar
without Andres Segovia and Julian Bream it’s impossible to research history of
Russian seven-string guitar without knowledge about the great players of this
guitar school. The history of every guitar school is inseparable from history of
great composers and great players.

As it is said above the seven-string guitar had two traditions, two general lines.
The Moscow seven-string guitar tradition and the St. Petersburg seven-string
guitar tradition.

Here are the names of the greatest representatives of the both traditions:

St. Petersburg tradition.

Sihra Andrey Osipovich (1773-1850) – the founder of the tradition.

Aksenov Semen Nikolaevich (1784-1853).

Sarenko Vasily Stepanovich (1819-1881)

Aleksandrov Nikolay Ivanovich (1818-1895).

Morkov Vladimir Ivanovich (1884-1964)

Soloviev Aleksandr Petrovich (1856-1911)

Afromeev Aleksey Maksimovich (1868-1920)

Author and publisher of «Guitar Playing by Correspondence». Publisher of

guitar magazines “Guitarist”, “Chord”, «Guitar Music».

Zimmerman Fedor Mikhailovich (1813-1882)

One of the most famous and mysterious figures of seven-string guitar world.
Brilliant performer. Was nicknamed as “Paganini of the guitar”.

Rusanov Valerian Alekseevich (1866-1918).

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Teacher, performer, composer, conductor, guitar historian, journalist, editor,

popularizer.

Author of book “Guitar in Russia”.

Svincov Vasily Ivanovich (?-1880)

Makarov Nikolai Petrovich ( 1813-1882).

Author of book «A Few Rules of the Guitaqr Art»

In 1856 he organized a guitar competition in Brussels.

Pleskov Ivan Aleksandrovich (1827-1905).

Alfer’ev Vasiliy Sergeevich (1775-?).

Publisher of the first «Russian Pocket Songbook for the Seven-String Guitar».

Mashkevich Vladimir Pavlovich (1888-1971).

Dekker-Shenk Ivan Fedorovich (1825-1899).

Author of “School for six and seven-string guitar”.

Glushkov Fedor Fedorovich (1843-1898).

Korin –Kharin Petr Andreevich (1814-1894).

Galin Samuil Nikolaevich (1878-1907).

Lebedev Vasiliy Petrovich (1867-1907).

Belanovsky Sergey Aleksandrovich (1884-1962).

Isaakov Petr Ivanovich (1885-1958).

Svarog Vasily Semenovich (1883-1946).

Musatov Vladislav Mikhailovich (1903-1991).

Author of «The Short Essay of the Russian Guitar», “The Short Biography of M.
T. Visotsky”, “About the Guitar Tuning”.

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Menro Lev Aleksandrovich (1923-?)

Moscow tradition.

Visotsky Mikhail Timofeevich (1791-1837) – the founder of the Moscow

tradition.

Self-educated guitarist. Brilliant performer. Creator of guitar tradition in

Kushenov-Dmitrievsky Dmitry Fedorovich (1772-1835)

Composer, teacher, popularizer.

Sokolov Ilya Osipovich (1777-1848).

Vetrov Aleksandr Alekseevich (1812-1877).

Beloshein Pavel Feodosievich (1795-1869)

Lipkin Nikolai Egorovich (?-1883)

Geld Ignatiy (1766-1816).

The publisher of the first “School for the seven-string guitar”. The school has
been lost.

Delvig Pavel Petrovich (1803-1854)

Lyahov Ivan Egorovich (1813-1877)

Stahovich Mikhail Aleksandrovich (1819-1858)

Author of «About the History of the Seven-string Guitar».

Kladovshikov Pavel Grigov’evich (?-1885)

Golikov Andrei Klemen’evich (1834-1894)

Klinger Ivan Andreevich (1815-1897)

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Lebedev Nikolai Nikolaevich (1838-1887)

D’yakov Uriy Il’ich (1840-1920)

Slepuhov Nikifor Kyz’mich (1867-1926)

Meleshko Romual’d Feliksovich (1911-1979)

Ur’ev Vasily Mikhailovich (1881-1962)

Author of «The Self-Teacher of Playing the Seven-string guitar». (Sergey

Rudnev ”The Russian Style of the classical guitar-playing” page 203)

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SOURCE MATERIAL
Printed sources:

Сергей Руднев «Русский стиль игры на классической гитаре» (Sergey Rudnev ”The Russian
Style of the classical guitar-playing”)

Б.Вольман «Гитара в России. Очерк об истории гитарного искусства», Ленинград 1961

(B.Volman “The Guitar in Russia. The History of Russian Guitar Art”, Leningrad 1961.)

М.Стахович «Очерк истории семиструнной гитары». Журнал «Якорь» 1858. (M. Stakhovich
“The History of the Seven-String Guitar.”)

Музыкальная энциклопедия 1973, 1981. Music Encyclopedia of USSR. 1973, 1981.

Internet sources:

http://www.oldguitars.ru/article_2.html

http://www.lute.ru/russianguitar/volmanbook/part1.htm

http://guitarmag.net/rudneview/#axzz2ArmkNAc5

http://guitarists.ru/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=170

http://www.narodny.info/history/738-gitara.html

http://sergey-orekhov2.narod.ru/

http://albomguitar.narod.ru/Sergey_Orehov.htm

http://ru.wikipedia.org

http://sergei-orekhov.blogspot.fi/2009/12/blog-post.html

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