Tikhon Nikolayevich Khrennikov

Tikhon Nikolayevich Khrennikov was a Russian composer, pianist, and public figure. From 1922 he studied piano performance, and from 1926 — composition. In 1932 he graduated from the Gnesin Music School, and in 1936 — the Moscow Conservatory.

  

In 1939 he wrote the opera "Into the Storm", in which the figure of V. I. Lenin was depicted for the first time in musical art. In 1950 he completed the opera "Frol Skobeev". He authored music that became popular for films and stage productions: the films "The Swineherd and the Shepherd" (1941), "At Six in the Evening After the War" (1944), "The Train Goes to the East" (1949), and others; stage productions such as "Much Ado About Nothing" at the Vakhtangov Theatre, "Long Ago" at the Theatre of the Soviet Army, and others.

From 1948 to 1991 he headed the Union of Composers of the USSR. From 1961 he taught composition at the Moscow Conservatory (professor from 1966). Tikhon Nikolayevich Khrennikov died at the age of 94 on 14 August 2007 in Moscow and was buried in his homeland — in Yelets.