Sergey Balasanian, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Sergey Balasanian

Armenian musician

Date of Birth: 26-Aug-1902

Place of Birth: Ashgabat, Turkmenistan

Date of Death: 03-Jun-1982

Profession: composer, music pedagogue

Nationality: Armenia

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Sergey Artem'yevich Balasanian (13 August 1902 in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan – 13 June 1982 Moscow, Russia) was a Soviet-era composer.
He taught composition in the Moscow State Conservatory. Balasanian wrote the first Tajik opera – The Uprising at Vosse (first staged in 1939). Sergey Balasanian was awarded the State Prize of the USSR (1949) and five orders.
In 1957 he was decorated as People’s Artist of the Tajik SSR, and in 1963 as Honored Art Worker of the Russian SFSR.