Anatoly Yakovlevich Lepin (; ; , in
Moscow
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– 24 October 1984, in Moscow) was a
Soviet
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composer of
Latvian origin.
He was born in 1907 into the family of Jēkabs Liepiņš, a Latvian instrument tuner, who had recently moved to Moscow. He graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in 1936, having studied composition with A. N. Aleksandrov, and went on to teach in
Tashkent
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from 1936 to 1938 then in
Kharkiv
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from 1945 to 1950, and during that period composed the
Anthem of the Latvian SSR.
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Lepin was married to Milica Svarenieks, a ballerina of Latvian origin, with whom he had a son, Leonid (b. 1946), and a daughter – Tatyana (b. 1953). Lepin died in 1984 and was buried at the Vagankovo Cemetery
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in Moscow.
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1907 births
1984 deaths
20th-century classical musicians
20th-century Russian male musicians
Musicians from Moscow
People from Moskovsky Uyezd
Communist Party of the Soviet Union members
Moscow Conservatory alumni
Recipients of the Order of the Badge of Honour
Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Russian people of Latvian descent
Soviet film score composers
Soviet male composers
Burials at Vagankovo Cemetery
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