Almaz Monasypov (1925-2008). Sonata for violin and piano

Almaz Monasypov was born on 11 July 1925 in Kazan. His family often played music and his father loved to play the violin. At the age of eleven, Monasypov entered the children’s music school in Kazan to learn to play the cello His teacher at the music school, and then at the Kazan Music College was Ruvim Polyakov, who helped the young Monasypov to believe in his musical talent. In 1943, Monasypov turned 18 and was subsequently drafted into the Red Army. He became a soldier in the Eastern Front. After the end of the war, Monasypov returned to his studies. He entered the Kazan state Conservatory, where he graduated in 1950 as a cellist in the class of Professor Alexander Brown. He returned to the Conservatory in 1952 to study composition. In 1956, he graduated from the Kazan Conservatory for the second time in the class of Professor Albert Leman and received a diploma as a composer. In 1964, Monasypov completed a full course of post-graduate studies at the Conservatory in the specialty of opera and sy