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Alexander Galich (writer) (Alexander Aronovich Ginzburg) was born on 19 October, 1918 in Ekaterinoslav (now Dnipro), Ukraine, is a Soviet musician and writer. Discover Alexander Galich (writer)'s Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 59 years old?

Popular As Alexander Aronovich Ginzburg
Occupation poet, screenwriter, playwright, singer-songwriter, and dissident
Age 59 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 19 October 1918
Birthday 19 October
Birthplace Ekaterinoslav (now Dnipro), Ukraine
Date of death 15 December, 1977
Died Place Paris, France
Nationality Ukraine

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1918

Alexander Arkadievich Galich (Алекса́ндр Арка́дьевич Га́лич, born Alexander Aronovich Ginzburg, 19 October 1918 – 15 December 1977) was a Soviet poet, screenwriter, playwright, singer-songwriter, and dissident.

Galich is a pen name, an abbreviation of his last name, first name, and patronymic: Ginzburg Alexander Arkadievich.

He was born on 19 October 1918 in Ekaterinoslav (then Dnipropetrovsk and now Dnipro), Ukraine, into a family of Jewish intellectuals.

His father, Aron Samoilovich Ginzburg, was an economist, and his mother, Fanni Borisovna Veksler, worked in a music conservatory.

For most of his childhood he lived in Sevastopol.

1939

Before World War II, he entered the Gorky Literary Institute, then moved to Konstantin Stanislavski's Operatic-Dramatic Studio, and then to the Studio-Theatre of Alexei Arbuzov and Valentin Pluchek (in 1939).

1950

He wrote plays and screenplays, and in the late 1950s, he started to write songs and sing them accompanying himself on his guitar.

Influenced by the Russian city romance tradition and the art of Alexander Vertinsky, Galich developed his own voice within the genre.

He practically single-handedly created the genre of "bard song".

Many of his songs spoke of the Second World War and the lives of concentration camp inmates—subjects which Vladimir Vysotsky also began tackling at around the same time.

They became popular with the public and were made available via magnitizdat.

His first songs, though rather innocent politically, nevertheless were distinctly out of tune with the official Soviet aesthetics.

They marked a turning point in Galich's creative life, since before this, he was a quite successful Soviet man of letters.

This turn was also brought about by the aborted premiere of his play Matrosskaya Tishina written for the newly opened Sovremennik Theatre.

The play, already rehearsed, was banned by censors, who claimed that the author had a distorted view of the role of Jews in the Great Patriotic War.

This incident was later described by Galich in the story Generalnaya Repetitsiya (Dress Rehearsal).

Galich's increasingly sharp criticism of the Soviet regime in his music caused him many problems.

1970

After it was established in 1970, the dissident Committee on Human Rights in the USSR included Galich as an honorary member.

1971

In 1971, he was expelled from the Soviet Writers' Union, which he had joined in 1955.

1972

In 1972, he was expelled from the Union of Cinematographers.

That year he became baptized in the Eastern Orthodox Church by Alexander Men.

1974

Galich was forced to emigrate from the Soviet Union in 1974.

He initially lived in Norway for one year, where he made his first recordings outside of the USSR.

These were broadcast by him on Radio Liberty.

His songs critical towards the Soviet government became immensely popular in the underground scene in the USSR.

He later moved to Munich and finally to Paris.

1977

On the evening of 15 December 1977, he was found dead by his wife, clutching a Grundig stereo recording antenna plugged into a power socket.

While his death was declared to be an accident, no one witnessed the exact circumstances of his death.

The results of the official investigation were not publicly released by French police.

According to his daughter Alena Galich-Arkhangelskaya, Galich was murdered by the KGB.

Journalist and KGB agent Leonid Kolosov claimed that KGB chairman Yuri Andropov personally authorized a mission to bring Galich back to the USSR, promising a restoration of citizenship and artistic freedom.

But it remains unknown if KGB agents ever made him such an offer.

1988

In 1988, he was posthumously re-instated into the Writers' and Cinematographers' Unions.

2003

In 2003, the first memorial plaque for Galich was put up on a building in Akademgorodok (Novosibirsk) where he performed in 1968.

That same year, the Alexander Galich Memorial Society was founded.

Alexander Galich, like most bards, had a fairly minimal musical background.

He played his songs on a seven string Russian guitar, which was fairly standard at the time.

He often wrote in the key of D minor, relying on very simple chord progressions and fingerpicking techniques.

He had basic piano playing skills as well.

Galich had a signature cadence that he would usually play at the conclusion of a song (and sometimes at the beginning).