Vavilov G. Sonata No 16 for piano

Guennady Vavilov (born in 1932) is the great composer being awarded the titles “People's Artist of Karelia”, “Honoured Art Worker of Russia”, professor of the Glazunov State Conservatoire in Petrozavodsk. Those were such distinguished figures as E. O. Messner, E. K. Golubev, O. A. Yevlakhov to have been his preceptors in the Moscow and St. Petersburg Conservatoire, which he graduated from in 1966. Since that time Vavilov lives and works in Petrozavodsk.
No doubt, the piano music is truly considered by the composer to be the special page in his creative work: 16 sonatas, 14 piano suites, among them — the ones, based on the Karelian and the Finnish folk-lore — “Piirilejkki”, “Runes”, “Native Strains”, “Iojkhu”, cycles of piano pieces, as large-scale as “The Northern Album”, “The Way to the Sun”, “Etudes-pictures”, novelles, more than one hundred programme-miniatures.

Seventeen sonatas for piano were created by Guennady Vavilov during the last two and a half centenaries. The world music can hardly remember such profound conception, reflecting contemporaniety making the novel piano structures and devices rise from nowhere.