Georgy Sviridov

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Georgy Sviridov was a prominent 20th-century Russian composer known for his choral, orchestral, and vocal music that drew heavily on Russian folk and literary traditions.

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instanceOf Russian composer
composer
human
activePeriod 20th century
awardReceived Lenin Prize
Order of Lenin
People's Artist of the USSR
Stalin Prize
USSR State Prize
burialPlace Nikolskoye Cemetery, Alexander Nevsky Lavra
citizenshipPeriod Soviet era
countryOfCitizenship Russia
Soviet Union
dateOfBirth 1915-12-16
dateOfDeath 1998-01-06
educatedAt Leningrad Conservatory
familyName Sviridov
fullName Georgy Vasilyevich Sviridov
genre cantata
choral music
film music
orchestral music
song cycle
vocal music
givenName Georgy
influencedBy Alexander Blok
Alexander Pushkin
Russian Orthodox chant
Russian folk music
Russian literature
Sergei Yesenin
languageOfLyrics Russian
movement Russian classical music
Soviet music
name Georgy Sviridov
nativeName Георгий Васильевич Свиридов
notableFor choral works based on Russian poetry
orchestral suites for film and television
notableWork Pathetic Oratorio
Poem in Memory of Sergei Yesenin
Russia, My Motherland
Snowstorm (suite after Pushkin)
Songs and Romances to verses by Alexander Blok
Time, Forward! (suite)
occupation composer
pianist
placeOfBirth Fatezh
Kursk Governorate
placeOfDeath Moscow
sexOrGender male
studiedUnder Dmitri Shostakovich
style neo-romanticism

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