Vano Muradeli
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Vano Muradeli (Georgian: ვანო მურადელი; Russian: Вано Ильич Мурадели; 6 April [O.S. 24 March] 1908 – 14 August 1970), was a Soviet Georgian composer.
Biography
He was born in Gori, Georgia (then part of Imperial Russia) to Georgian[1][2] -Armenian parents.[3] He graduated from Tbilisi State Conservatoire 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 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)
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- 1908 births
- 1970 deaths
- 20th-century classical composers
- 20th-century male musicians
- People from Gori, Georgia
- People from Tiflis Governorate
- Communist Party of the Soviet Union members
- Members of the Central Committee of the 23rd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- Moscow Conservatory alumni
- Tbilisi State Conservatoire alumni
- People's Artists of Georgia
- People's Artists of the RSFSR
- People's Artists of the USSR
- Recipients of the Order of Lenin
- Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
- Recipients of the Stalin Prize
- Classical composers from Georgia (country)
- Conductors (music) from Georgia (country)
- Georgian people of Armenian descent
- Male film score composers
- Male opera composers
- Male operetta composers
- Opera composers from Georgia (country)
- Soviet Armenians
- Soviet conductors (music)
- Soviet film score composers
- Soviet male classical composers
- Soviet opera composers
- Burials at Novodevichy Cemetery