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Georgy Vasilyevich Sviridov (Russian: Гео́ргий Васи́льевич Свири́дов; 16 December 1915 – 6 January 1998) was a Soviet and Russian neoromantic 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.
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.
Filmography
all 21
Movies 21
self 1
Tower Bawher (2006)
The Outskirts (1998)
Happy Birthday! (1998)
Trust (1976)
Ogonki (1968)
Beginning (1967)
Time, Forward! (1965)
The Russian Forest (1964)
The Blizzard (1964)
Resurrection (1960)
Don César de Bazan (1957)
Polyushko, pole (1957)
Rimsky-Korsakov (1953)
Przhevalsky (1951)
The New Land (1940)
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Known ForSound
GenderMale
Birthday1915-12-16
Deathday1998-01-06 (82 years old)
Birth PlaceFatezh, Kursk Governorate, Russian Empire [now Kursk Oblast, Russia]
CitizenshipsRussian Empire, Soviet Union, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russia
Also Known AsГеоргий Свиридов, Georgi Sviridov, Georgiy Sviridov, G. Sviridov, Yu. Sviridov, Yuriy Sviridov, Yuri Sviridov
AwardsMedal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow", Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin", Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" II class, State Prize of the Russian Federation, Stalin Prize, honorary citizen of Moscow, Prize of the President of the Russian Federation, People's Artist of the USSR, Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", USSR State Prize, Hero of Socialist Labour, Order of Lenin, Lenin Prize, People's Artist of the RSFSR
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