Anashkin Sergey: Biography and Creativity

Some people are remembered not by facts from life, but by deeds. So, the Soviet composer Anashkin Sergey remained in the history of Russian culture as a talented person who worked a lot with animated films. In addition, he is the father of a famous actor and an excellent accompanist.

Sergey Anashkin: biography

On the childhood and adolescence of the composer, nothing is known except the date of birth - November 11, 1948. He probably attended a music school and a school, since Sergei Mikhailovich plays beautifully on the piano. Before the eighties, Sergei Anashkin remained in the background. He wrote his own music and worked in Lenkom as a music director, and also tried himself as a multiplier. His first work was a cartoon tape "Uncle Fyodor, dog and cat. Mitya and Murka ", she appeared on the screens in 1976.

At the time of the birth of his son in 1979, the Anashkin family lived in Danilov, Yaroslavl region. In the same year, Sergei was invited to work on the film "Once upon a time there was a tuner", for which he wrote music with Gennady Gladkov. Later Anashkin Sergey worked with him as an arranger. Now Sergei Mikhailovich often gives concerts, on which he plays classical works and plays of his own composition.

Work on cartoons

Another work as an animator for Sergei Mikhailovich was the tape "Pluh and Plih", released in 1984. The basis for her was the poem of William W. Bush, which was translated by Daniel Harms. This is a puppet cartoon, which is included in the gold film library of the Soviet period.

Later, Sergei Mikhailovich began to participate in the creation of animated films as a composer. The first such work was the film "Road Fairy Tale", directed by the famous Harry Bardeen. The director and Sergei Mikhailovich worked together on several other tapes. In the period before the ninetieth year, Sergei Anashkin (composer) wrote music for five cartoons.

New Bremen

In the nineties, namely in 1995, Sergei Mikhailovich acquired the first experience of scoring cartoons. He worked as an arranger on a plasticine tape "Cat in Boots", created by Harry Bardin on the fairy tale by Charles Perrault. Later this experience was useful to the composer, as in the late nineties he worked on the continuation of the cartoon about the Bremen musicians. During the recording, he acted as accompanist.

In 2000, the cartoon was released for hire. In its creation participated stars of modern show business, they sang voices of heroes. The budget of the tape was great enough, but the critics took it cool. Meanwhile, the performance of music by the instrumental ensemble, which was directed by Anashkin Sergey Mikhailovich, was praised, only the idea of the cartoon film failed. He was made very modern, far away from the original fairy tale.

Benefits for children

In the nineties, the multipliers experienced serious difficulties, so Sergei Mikhailovich took up the arrangements. He began to excel in this direction, thanks to which he was invited to various projects as an arranger. Later, in 2010, together with Gennady Gladkov he prepared a manual for students of music schools, with the help of which children could learn to play their own songs from domestic films, including cartoons.

The manual "Life and Creativity" is in great demand among teachers of music and methodologists of preschool institutions. They note that the arrangements are simple enough, and the works sound no worse than in the original. I like this book and music lovers.

ugly duck

Anashkin Sergey was again invited by Harry Bardin to cooperate in 2015. Then they worked together to create the first full-length animated cartoon film. They became the tape "Ugly Duckling". In it arrangements were arranged for works by Pyotr Tchaikovsky "Swan Lake" and "The Nutcracker". In total, the film used 26 fragments from different works.

Sergei Mikhailovich worked them deeply enough. He turned waltzes into marches. For example, in one part of the cartoon there is a solemn march, which came from the part of the ballet "The Nutcracker" titled "Waltz of Flowers" and Coda from the work "Swan Lake". This arranger's finding was appreciated highly enough, since no one could assume that the well-known works can sound so unusual.

Also, the arrangement of classics for poems written by Julius Kim was praised. For example, the scene of the tenth ballet "Swan Lake" served as the basis for the arias of the Ugly Duckling, from which the songs "Oh, how dark is around ...", "Here, again I'm alone ..." and "How to get home ...", and part of the work "The Nutcracker" became the main aria for the Wild Goose "My son, do not be too rash ...".

This puppet cartoon was awarded numerous awards at foreign festivals and received the national award "Nika". At the same time, it was perceived by spectators and mass rental more than cool. On the "First Channel" the cartoon was refused to show, which was even removed from the TV show "Let them talk", released in late April 2010. The Rossiya television channel called the tape art-house and also did not include it in the broadcasting grid. In cinemas, the shows were also held at empty halls.