Composer · 1915 - 1998
Georgy Sviridov
Biography
Georgy Vasil'yevich Sviridov
(b Fatezh, Kursk Province, 3/16 Dec 1915; d Moscow, 6 Jan 1998). Russian composer, pianist, musical and public figure.
After his initial education at the music school in Kursk (1929–32), he studied composition under M.A. Yudin, and piano under Isay Braudo at the Central Music Tekhnikum in Leningrad (1932–6), later transferring to the Leningrad Conservatory (1936–41) where his teachers were Ryazanov and Shostakovich. Sviridov is one of the most significant figures in Russian music of the second half of the 20th century and one of the most popular composers of concert works in post-World War II Russia. His consistent striving towards a distinctively Russian style has made him the leader of a new nationalist movement in his country.