From 25 June to 19 July, a book exhibition “Listening to the voice of Time” dedicated to the 90th anniversary of Belarusian composer and pedagogue G.M. Vagner (1922–2000) runs in the Music and audio documents reading room (room 305).
The creativity of Genrikh Matusovich Vagner is a fruit of his artistic reflection about life, a fruit of his internal need to express something treasured and kept in his soul. As each fair artist, he feels the necessity to tell in music a word about what he and his country went through. The pages of the composer’s biography are parched by the war, and for this reason the leading place in his creativity belongs to patriotic themes: the vocal-symphonic poem “Eternally Alive” (1959), “To the Heroes of Brest”, (1975, the Lenin Komsomol Prize 1976), the opera “On the Path of Life” (1977) etc.
The works of G.M. Vagner impress with their variety: ballets, choruses, romances, songs, music to films, dramas, television- and radio-performances, symphonic and chamber-instrumental works, piano miniatures, adaptations of samples of Russian, Belarusian, Polish, Romanian folklore. They enchant listeners with the dynamics of movement, an unquenchable energy, cheerfulness and optimism, and open emotions. The range is great, and the quantity is considerable enough. The composer is the author of the first Belarusian TV-opera first “The Morning” (1967).
The exhibition presents musical collections of G.M. Vagner’s works, and also audio documents from the collections of the National Library of Belarus. Visitors of the exhibition can work with documents on display and also listen to audio records.
The exposition is completed with publications from periodicals about the composer and his creativity.
Contact phone number: (+375-17) 293-27-52.
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