Ukrainian scientist, philosopher, writer, poet, composer, musician, polyglot, translator of more than a hundred languages, researcher. Author of translations of Levinas, Rilke, Quasimodo, Binh Xin, Tatar poets.
Biography
He was born on July 13, 1939 in the city of Pokrovsk (then Krasnoarmiysk), Donetsk region. In his early childhood, during the Second World War, he and his family were sent to a concentration camp near Vienna, in Austerlitz. Kurinsky himself spoke about this period of his life as follows:
"...the war made me an international child. We lived with our parents in a labor camp in Austria for three years until we were liberated by the Soviet troops. Apart from the horrors I experienced, I had the opportunity to learn Polish, German, Hungarian, as the camp was multilingual. It was there that I began the first self-explorations and studies of my speech apparatus, which later, decades later, developed into a whole system."
After the end of the war, in 1945, his parents and older brother were re-arrested and imprisoned, but already in the USSR. Graduated from school as an extern. Valery's parents made a lot of efforts to ensure that their children were educated.
"My parents put a lot of effort into my brother's education and emphasized self-education in family conversations. They took care that we knew several foreign languages, paid attention to our musical education. Even after the war, when there was famine and devastation all around, my parents bought a piglet, fattened it, sold it and bought me and my brother not just anything, but a real grand piano so that we could play music."
Received a higher musical education at the Kyiv Conservatory named after P. I. Tchaikovsky in the violin class, which he graduated in 1969. By the age of twenty-five, he had mastered about forty languages on his own.
For some time he worked with Mykola Kolessa as a translator of his lessons with Cuban youth. As a student of the conservatory, he worked as a journalist in "Vechirnyi Kyiv", his knowledge of languages gave him the opportunity to communicate with the outstanding Italian writer, children's storyteller, Gianni Rodari. For several years, Valery Aleksandrovych corresponded with Rainer Kirsch, head of the German Writers' Union, and sent him his comments on translations of Mandelstam's works into German. There, in "Evening Kyiv", he attends journalism and editorial school.
After graduating from the Kyiv Conservatory, he was offered the position of head of the literary department of the Kyiv Opera Theater. It was here that he first met Yevgenia Miroshnychenko, Gisela Tsypola, and Anatoly Solovyanenko. While working in the opera, he continues to write poems for songs, songs for movies. Already a year later, Kurinsky was offered a new position - Executive Secretary of the Union of Composers of Ukraine. He held a congress of composers, at which the prominent composer Valentin Sylvestrov was admitted to the composers' union, although before that his documents were thrown out of the lists of candidates for admission.
Creativity connected Kurinsky with the composer Igor Shamo. Several dozens of songs were written with him: the cantata "Skomaroshyna", about thirty songs for plays, feature and documentary films, variety shows. For example: "Waltz, waltz, waltz, the Dnieper wave is playing", "Two stars have fallen" (this piece is often performed by the trio "Libid"), the song "Glory to working hands". Among all these works, a prominent place belongs to the song "Peace of goodness and reason". In 1970, Kurinsky wrote the words to this work (in Russian and German), and later the song became the laureate of the World Festival of Youth and Students in Berlin. Together with Yevgeny Stankovych, songs were written for the film "Born by the Revolution". And later, together with a number of composers, almost a hundred songs for other films. Collaborated with such collectives as the trio "Lybid", "Marenichi", "Dumka", the Ukrainian men's band, the Chorus Verivka, the choir of Ukrainian radio and television, the All-Union Radio Song Ensemble, the Kyiv Military District Song and Dance Ensemble, philharmonic groups. Lev Leshchenko and Pavlo Zibrov were among the first performers. For the Theater of Russian Drama named after In the same years, Lesi Ukrainky wrote a huge number of zongs (in particular, for such performances as "Interview in Buenos Aires", "Steelmen").Warm friendly relations connect Valery Oleksandrovich with the composer Leonid Oleksandrovich Grabovsky.
In 1970, as a young student, Valery was forced for ideological reasons to give up his scientific degree at the graduate school of the Institute of Art, Folklore and Ethnography named after M. T. Rylskyi. His dissertation "Modern Western Opera Art" demonstrated that there is art not only in the USSR. Valeriy, as a person who had access to many foreign language sources, could not go against his conscience and agree with Soviet ideologists and musicologists who did not recognize avant-garde musical art in Western countries, so he decides to give up protection and activate his creative and scientific research. This is how "Postpsychology" and "Autodidactics" were born - scientific works on self-education (developed and published in the early nineties, they remain relevant even forearly youth). And also - "Self-educational reflections", "When there is no governess", "Aerobics in the mouth", collections of sonnets. A large number of listeners gathered for lectures on "General theory of mastery (skills)", "Philosophy of health", "Theory of friendship". It became the norm for the Maestro to start the morning by writing a new sonnet and end with a poem that would be the chronicle of his lived day. It's like a kind of diary. And he has more than ten thousand such "diaries". Post-psychological "Autodidactics" managed to instill a love of self-learning in many of his students. It is not surprising that the multifaceted talent of this man was noticed and appreciated in far and near abroad. Over the past five years, more than a thousand symphonic poems, more than eight hundred sonatas, as many etudes for piano, created with the help of modern musical technologies, excellent performance in solo concerts of all 24 caprices of Niccolò Paganini at once (and this after an extremely difficult operation, when the maestro almost completely refused the right hand). He was the author of such programs and projects as "Children's Academy on Wheels", "Dorogovkaz", "Wonderdied", on his initiative and under his scientific guidance, a textbook of the spoken Buryat language is being created. The novels "Pyrushka", "The Delight of Wandering Spaces", "Oh, My Nubia", collections of sonnets and aphorisms were published. Kurinsky is the author of more than ten thousand sonnets in Ukrainian, Russian, English and other languages, the inventor of a toy — a manual on phonetics, with the help of which children model language turns, adapting in an adult environment — Havaryusha. His theories help to change the model of thinking, to find undiscovered inner possibilities and one's own "I". The Autodidactics course was taught at the Academy of Sociology in Moscow, the post-psychological development of the course teaching was done at the Gniesenykh Institute and others. In addition, in Krasnodar there is a Center for the preparation of expectant mothers for childbirth, where Kurinsky's post-psychological ideas are successfully used.
Valery Kurinsky died on May 3, 2015. On May 8, 2015, a farewell was held in the building of the National Union of Composers of Ukraine. Buried at Baikovo cemetery.
Self-didactics
Valery Kurinsky is the author of the "Autodidactic" method, which is a system for self-learning and self-improvement of a person, which offers a number of methods of managing the process of self-education, which essentially involve the management of mental processes.
