Georgy Sviridov
Russian composer and pianist (1915–1998) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Georgy Vasilyevich Sviridov (Russian: Георгий Васильевич Свиридов[n 1]; 16 December 1915 – 6 January 1998) was a Soviet and Russian composer. He is most widely known for his choral music, strongly influenced by the traditional chant of the Russian Orthodox Church, as well as his orchestral works which often celebrate elements of Russian culture.
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Born | Georgy Vasilyevich Sviridov (1915-12-16)16 December 1915 |
Died | 6 January 1998(1998-01-06) (aged 82) Moscow, Russia |
Resting place | Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow |
Occupation | Composer |
Sviridov employed, especially in his choral music, rich and dense harmonic textures, embracing a romantic-era tonality; his works would come to incorporate not only sacred elements of Russian church music, including vocal work for the basso profundo, but also the influence of Eastern European folk music, 19th-century European romantic composers (especially Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky), and neoromantic contemporaries outside of Russia. He wrote musical settings of Russian Romantic poetry by poets such as Mikhail Lermontov, Fyodor Tyutchev, and Alexander Blok. Sviridov enjoyed critical acclaim for much of his career in the Soviet Union and Russia.