| Rodion Shchedrin |
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| 1932 births | |
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He was born in Moscow and studied at the Moscow Conservatory under Yuri Shaporin and Nikolai Myaskovsky . Since 1958 , he has been married to the great ballerina Maya Plisetskaya , 7 years his senior. Schedrin's early music is Tonal , colourfully Orchestrated and often includes snatches of Folk Music , while some later pieces use Aleatoric and Serial techniques. Among his works are the ballets ''The Little Hump-backed Horse'' (1955), ''Carmen'' (''Carmen-Suite'' (1967, based on the opera '' Carmen '' by Georges Bizet ), '' Anna Karenina '' (1971, on the novel by Leo Tolstoy ), and ''Lady with a Lapdog'' (1985); the operas ''Not Only Love'' (1961), and '' Dead Souls '' (1976, after Nikolai Gogol 's novel); Piano Concerto s, Symphonies , Chamber and Piano music and other works. He made 24 Preludes And Fugues after he heard the one from Shostakovich (20 Years later). Also remarkable is his Polyphonic Notebook. |
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