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Georgy Vasilyevich Sviridov
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Georgy Vasilyevich Sviridov – a Soviet composer, pianist, and public figure. One of the founders and leading representatives of the stylistic trend known as the «New Folk Wave». He was born in Fatezh, Kursk Oblast. His father was a postal worker, his mother a teacher. In Kursk Sviridov began studying music, played the piano and the balalaika, and attended a music school.
In 1932 Sviridov continued his education in Leningrad – he graduated from the music college and the Leningrad Conservatory under the guidance of Pyotr Ryazanov and Dmitri Shostakovich. After finishing the conservatory he was mobilized, but soon discharged for health reasons. During the Great Patriotic War he was evacuated to Novosibirsk.
Sviridov first gained recognition with romances set to Pushkin's poems, written in 1935. Later the composer created many vocal works to poems by various poets, including Lermontov, the Decembrists, Blok, Burns, Pasternak, Tyutchev and Yesenin. From 1956 Sviridov lived in Moscow. Georgy Vasilyevich Sviridov died on January 6, 1998 in Moscow and was buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery.
Date of birth
16 December 1915
Date of death
06 January 1998
Occupation
Composer