Episode 1242
Vano Muradeli
Sun, 2020-Sep-27 00:14 UTC
Length - 1:51
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The random article for Sunday, 27 September 2020 is Vano Muradeli.
Vano Muradeli (Georgian: ვანო მურადელი; Russian: Вано Ильич Мурадели; 6 April [O. S. 24 March] 1908 in Gori – 14 August 1970, in Tomsk), was a Soviet Georgian composer.
He was born in Gori, Georgia (then part of Imperial Russia) to Georgian -Armenian parents. 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 in 1968.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 00:14 UTC on Sunday, 27 September 2020.
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