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Dmitri Kabalevsky
Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky was a Soviet composer, conductor, pianist and pedagogue of Russian gentry descent.
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politics · Russian composer (1904–1987) · classical composer · conductor · choreographer · musicologist · music educator · university teacher · pianist · film score composer · public figure · politician · also Dmitri Kabalevsky, Dmitry Kabalevsky, Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, Dmitri Borísovich Kabalievski, Kabalevsky
Born 17 December 1904 · Died 27 February 1986 · Q153776
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1988· 1 entry
As Music and Education: A Composer Writes about Musical Education
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1986· 1 entry
Died 1986-02-27.
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1974· 1 entry
Awarded Hero of Socialist Labour (1974).
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1972· 1 entry
And the Hero of Socialist Labour in 1974
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1966· 1 entry
Career landmark: deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union (1966–1987).
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1962· 1 entry
And was also elected president of the Scientific Council of Educational Aesthetics in the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of the USSR in 1969
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1961· 2 entries
Kabalevsky orchestrated Franz Schubert's well known Fantasia in F minor, originally written for four hands on one piano, producing a virtuoso piece for a piano soloist playing with a symphony orchestra
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Kabalevsky made a recording of his Overture Pathetique, Spring, and Songs of Morning, in which he conducted
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1948· 1 entry
When Andrei Zhdanov issued his resolution on the directions and changes for Soviet music, Kabalevsky was originally on the list of composers who were allegedly the most guilty of "formalism", but due to his connections w
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1940· 1 entry
And received the Medal of Honour from the Soviet government for his musical skill in 1941
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1932· 1 entry
Was appointed senior lecturer at the Moscow Conservatory and by 1939 was a full-time professor
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1925· 2 entries
Joined PROKULL (Production Collective of Student Composers), a student group affiliated with Moscow Conservatory aimed at bridging the gap between the modernism of the ACM and the utilitarian "agitprop" music of the R
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Then went on to study at the Moscow Conservatory where he learned composition with first Georgy Catoire, then Nikolai Myaskovsky and piano with Alexander Goldenweiser
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1924· 1 entry
Maxim Gorky said that Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin was a quasi-religious admirer of Issay Dobrowen's performance of the "preterhuman music" of one of Beethoven's 32 sonatas
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1904· 1 entry
Born 1904-12-17.
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