Georgy Sviridov, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Georgy Sviridov

Russian composer

Date of Birth: 03-Dec-1915

Place of Birth: Fatezh, Russia

Date of Death: 06-Jan-1998

Profession: composer, pianist, film score composer

Nationality: Russia

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Georgy Vasilyevich Sviridov (Russian: ???´???? ????´?????? ?????´???; his patronymic is also transliterated Vasil'yevich, Vasilievich, and Vasil'evich) (16 December 1915 – 6 January 1998) was a Russian neoromantic composer, active in the Soviet era.
He is most widely known for his choral music, strongly influenced by the traditional chant of the Russian Orthodox Church, as well as his orchestral works which often celebrate elements of Russian culture.
Sviridov employed, in his choral music especially, rich and dense harmonic textures, embracing a romantic-era tonality; his works would come to incorporate not only sacred elements of Russian church music, including vocal work for the basso profundo, but also display the influence of Eastern European folk music, 19th-century European romantic composers (especially Tchaikovsky), as well as neoromantic contemporaries outside of Russia.
He wrote musical settings of Russian Romantic-era poetry by poets such as Lermontov, Tyutchev and Blok.
Sviridov enjoyed critical acclaim for much of his career in the USSR.