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

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– June 20, 1992) was a

Russian Russian(s) refers to anything related to Russia, including: *Russians (, ''russkiye''), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries *Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and peo ...

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composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Defi ...

. 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 the ...

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 Vladimir may refer to: Names * Vladimir (name) for the Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Macedonian, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak and Slovenian spellings of a Slavic name * Uladzimir for the Belarusian version of the name * Volodymyr for the Ukra ...

. His works include operas: *''Alen'kiy Tsvetochek'' (''

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'', 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 Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov ( rus, links=no, Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков, p=mʲɪxɐˈil ɐfɐˈnasʲjɪvʲɪtɕ bʊlˈɡakəf; – 10 March 1940) was a Soviet writer, medical doctor, and playwright active in the fir ...

, 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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Memorial site
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