Vano Muradeli ( ka, ვანო მურადელი; russian: Вано Ильич Мурадели; in
Gori – 14 August 1970, in
Tomsk
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), was a
Soviet Georgian composer.
He was born in
Gori, Georgia
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(then part of
Imperial Russia
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) to
Georgian -
Armenian parents.
[Laurel E. Fay, ''Shostakovich and His World'' (Princeton University Press, 2004), 44.] He graduated from
Tbilisi State Conservatory in 1931; then studied with
Nikolai Myaskovsky at the
Moscow Conservatory. From 1934 to 1938, he worked there. From 1942 to 1944, he served as a principal and artistic director of the Central Ensemble of the
Soviet Navy. In 1946, he was awarded the
Stalin Prize. In 1948, his opera ''
The Great Friendship'' was censured by the resolution of the Communist Party Central Committee. After
Joseph Stalin's death, he was restored to favor and granted the title of the
People's Artist of the USSR
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Nomenclature and significan ...
in 1968.
Works
Opera:
*"The Great Friendship" (1947; premiere, Moscow, 7 November 1947)
*"October" (1950; revised 1962; premiere, Moscow, 22 April 1964)
Operetta:
*"Moscow-Paris-Moscow" (1968)
Orchestra:
*Symphony No. 1 "To the Memory of
Kirov" (1938; premiere Moscow, 28 November 1938)
*Symphony No. 2 (1945; received Stalin Prize)
*Georgian Dance Suite for symphony orchestra (1939)
*Festive Overture for symphony orchestra (1940)
*Symphonic poem, "The Path of Victory" for chorus and orchestra (1950)
Vocal with orchestra:
*Cantata: "Our Leader" (for the 60th birthday of Stalin, 1939)
*Cantata: "Together for Ever" (1959)
*Cantata: "Lenin is Among Us" (1960)
*Song on the Youth of Stalin for solo-voice and orchestra (1940)
*"Zdravitza" for mixed chorus and orchestra (1941)
*March for mixed chorus and wind orchestra (1941)
References
External links
Page on van Rijen siteContains a worklist
1908 births
1970 deaths
20th-century classical composers
20th-century male musicians
Burials at Novodevichy Cemetery
Classical composers from Georgia (country)
Georgian people of Armenian descent
Male film score composers
Male opera composers
Opera composers from Georgia (country)
People from Gori, Georgia
People from Tiflis Governorate
People's Artists of the USSR
Soviet classical composers
Soviet film score composers
Soviet male classical composers
Soviet opera composers
Stalin Prize winners
Soviet Armenians
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