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Georgy Sviridov

1915 - 1998

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Georgy Vasilyevich Sviridov (Russian: Георгий Васильевич Свиридов; 16 December 1915 – 6 January 1998) was a Soviet and Russian composer. 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, especially in his choral music, 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 the influence of Eastern European folk music, 19th-century European romantic composers (especially Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky), and neoromantic contemporaries outside of Russia. He wrote musical settings of Russian Romantic poetry by poets such as Mikhail Lermontov, Fyodor Tyutchev, and Alexander Blok. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Georgy Sviridov is the 638th most popular composer (down from 459th in 2019), the 820th most popular biography from Russia (down from 614th in 2019) and the 30th most popular Russian Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Georgy Sviridov ranks 638 out of 1,451. Before him are Ludwig Senfl, Felip Pedrell, Alex North, Johan Helmich Roman, Wolfgang Schmieder, and John Taverner. After him are Pierre Henry, Malcolm Arnold, Arthur Sullivan, Johann Friedrich Agricola, Antoine Forqueray, and Hermann Levi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Georgy Sviridov ranks 99. Before him are Kon Ichikawa, Ghulam Ishaq Khan, Wilhelm Gliese, Marais Viljoen, Evgeny Lifshitz, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe. After him are André Frossard, Alicia Rhett, C. W. Ceram, Edmond O'Brien, Mariano Rumor, and Albert Ghiorso. Among people deceased in 1998, Georgy Sviridov ranks 101. Before him are Zbigniew Herbert, Juan José Nogués, Patricia Hayes, Ed Ablowich, John Derek, and E. G. Marshall. After him are Jerome Robbins, Beatrice Wood, Slava Metreveli, Jane Bell, Shinichi Suzuki, and Friedrich Josias, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Georgy Sviridov ranks 820 out of 3,761. Before him are Oleg Salenko (1969), Dmitry of Tver (1299), Alexander Izvolsky (1856), Edwin Klebs (1834), Dmitri Hvorostovsky (1962), and Vyacheslav von Plehve (1846). After him are Eero Järnefelt (1863), Andrey II of Vladimir (1222), Vasily Aksyonov (1932), Natalia Makarova (1940), Alexander Fadeyev (1901), and Aleksandr Dvornikov (1961).

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Among COMPOSERS In Russia

Among composers born in Russia, Georgy Sviridov ranks 30. Before him are Gennady Rozhdestvensky (1931), Rodion Shchedrin (1932), Vasily Kalinnikov (1866), Tikhon Khrennikov (1913), Aleksandra Pakhmutova (1929), and Alexander Gretchaninov (1864). After him are Sergei Lyapunov (1859), Boris Asafyev (1884), Galina Ustvolskaya (1919), Edison Denisov (1929), Alexander Tcherepnin (1899), and Matvey Blanter (1903).

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