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Galich's increasingly sharp criticism of the Soviet regime in his music caused him
many problems. After it was established in 1970, the dissident Committee on Human
Rights in the USSR included Galich as an honorary member.
[1]
In 1971, he was
expelled from the Soviet Writers' Union, which he had joined in 1955. In 1972, he was
expelled from the Union of Cinematographers. That
year he became baptized in
the Eastern Orthodox Church by Alexander Men.
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.
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,
[2][3]
no one witnessed the
exact circumstances of his
death.
[4]
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.
[3][5]
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.
[6]
But it remains unknown
if KGB agents ever made him such offer.
In 1988, he was posthumously re-instated into the Writers' and Cinematographers'
Unions. 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.
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Galich had a signature cadence that he would usually play at the conclusion of a song
(and sometimes at the beginning). He would play the D minor chord toward the top of
the fretboard (fret position 0XX0233, thickest to thinnest string, open G tuning), then
slide down the fretboard to a higher voiced D minor
LITERATURE
1.
Алаудинова Д. ОҒЗАКИ НУТҚНИ ЎСТИРИШГА ДОИР ЎТКAЗИЛГAН
ПЕДAГOГИК ТAЖPИБA СИНОВ НАТИЖАЛАРИ //O ‘ZBEKISTON
RESPUBLIKASI OLIY VA O ‘RTA MAXSUS TA’LIM
VAZIRLIGI O
‘ZBEKISTON DAVLAT JAHON TILLARI UNIVERSITETI O ‘ZBEK TILI
VA ADABIYOTI KAFEDRASI. – С. 187.
2.
Алаудинова Д. ОҒЗАКИ НУТҚНИ ЎСТИРИШГА ДОИР ЎТКAЗИЛГAН
ПЕДAГOГИК ТAЖPИБA СИНОВ НАТИЖАЛАРИ //O ‘ZBEKISTON
RESPUBLIKASI OLIY VA O ‘RTA MAXSUS TA’LIM VAZIRLIGI O
‘ZBEKISTON DAVLAT JAHON TILLARI UNIVERSITETI O ‘ZBEK TILI
VA ADABIYOTI KAFEDRASI. – С. 187.
3.
Алаудинова Д. ОҒЗАКИ НУТҚНИ ЎСТИРИШГА ДОИР ЎТКAЗИЛГAН
ПЕДAГOГИК ТAЖPИБA СИНОВ НАТИЖАЛАРИ //O ‘ZBEKISTON
RESPUBLIKASI OLIY VA O ‘RTA MAXSUS TA’LIM VAZIRLIGI O
‘ZBEKISTON DAVLAT JAHON TILLARI UNIVERSITETI O ‘ZBEK TILI
VA ADABIYOTI KAFEDRASI. – С. 187.
4.
ALAUDINOVA
D.
PEDAGOGICAL
PRACTICE-TEST
RESULTS
ASSESSMENT CRITERIA, QUANTITY
AND QUALITY MULTIPLIER
ANALYSIS //ЭКОНОМИКА. – Т. 8. – С. 7-10.
5.
ALAUDINOVA
D.
PEDAGOGICAL
PRACTICE-TEST
RESULTS
ASSESSMENT CRITERIA, QUANTITY AND QUALITY MULTIPLIER
ANALYSIS //ЭКОНОМИКА. – Т. 8. – С. 7-10.