Nikolai Nikolayevich Sidelnikov (russian: Никола́й Никола́евич Сиде́льников; June 5, 1930,

Tver Tver ( rus, Тверь, p=tvʲerʲ) is a city and the administrative centre of Tver Oblast, Russia. It is northwest of Moscow. Population: Tver was formerly the capital of a powerful medieval state and a model provincial town in the Russian ...

– June 20, 1992) was a

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composer. Sidelnikov studied with E. O. Messner and

Yuri Shaporin Yuri Alexandrovich Shaporin (russian: Юрий (Георгий) Александрович Шапорин) ( – 9 December 1966), PAU, was a Russian-Ukrainian Soviet composer. Biography Shaporin was born in Hlukhiv in the Russian Empire ...

at the

Moscow Conservatory The Moscow Conservatory, also officially Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory (russian: Московская государственная консерватория им. П. И. Чайковского, link=no) is a musical educational inst ...

. He taught at the

where he was a professor from 1981. Among his pupils were Audronė Žigaitytė, Vyacheslav Artemov,

Eduard Artemyev Eduard Nikolayevich Artemyev ( rus, Эдуа́рд Никола́евич Арте́мьев, p=ɨdʊˈart ɐrˈtʲemʲjɪf; born 30 November 1937) is a Soviet and Russian composer of electronic music and film scores. Outside of Russia, he is ...

, Dmitri Smirnov,

Vladimir Tarnopolsky Vladimir Grigoryevich Tarnopolsky (russian: Влади́мир Григо́рьевич Тарнопо́льский, born April 30, 1955 in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR) is a Russian composer. Biography Tarnopolsky studied composition at t ...

Vladimir Martynov Vladimir Ivanovich Martynov (Russian: Владимир Иванович Мартынов) (Moscow, 20 February 1946) is a Russian composer, known for his compositions in the concerto, orchestral music, chamber music, and choral music genres. ...

Anton Rovner Anton Rovner (russian: Антон Аркадьевич Ровнер; born 28 June 1970) is a Russian-American composer, music critic and theorist. Life Anton Rovner's grandfather was Jewish, his grandmother was Russian belonged to Russian Ortho ...

, Sergey Pavlenko, Ivan Glebovich Sokolov and Vladimir Bitkin. His works include operas: *''Alen'kiy Tsvetochek'' (''

The Scarlet Flower The Scarlet Flower (russian: Аленький цветочек, ''Alen'kiy tsvetochek''), also known as The Little Scarlet Flower or The Little Red Flower, is a Russian folk tale written by Sergey Aksakov. It is an adaptation of traditional fai ...

'', after S. Aksakov, 1974) *''Chertogon'' (opera dilogy after

Nikolai Leskov Nikolai Semyonovich Leskov (russian: Никола́й Семёнович Леско́в; – ) was a Russian novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and journalist, who also wrote under the pseudonym M. Stebnitsky. Praised for his unique w ...

: ''Zagul'', ''Pokhmelye'', 1978–1981) *''Beg'' (''The Run'' after Mikhail Bulgakov, 1987) a ballet: *''Stepan Razin'' and also: 6 symphonies, an oratorio, cantatas, choral, chamber and vocal music. *''Russkie skazki'' (''Русские сказки — The Russian Fairy Tales'', 1968) - a concert for 12 players is one of his most notable compositions.

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