COMPOSER

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Georgy Sviridov has received more than 271,705 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Georgy Sviridov is the 459th most popular composer (up from 544th in 2019), the 614th most popular biography from Russia (up from 737th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Russian Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Georgy Sviridov ranks 459 out of 1,451. Before him are Bernhard Crusell, Emilio de' Cavalieri, Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Christoph Graupner, Johann Gottfried Walther, and Franck Pourcel. After him are Hans Pfitzner, Mélanie Bonis, Gaspar Sanz, Giovanni Pacini, Antonio Maria Abbatini, and Alexander Dargomyzhsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Georgy Sviridov ranks 72. Before him are Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., Geraldine of Albania, Tadeusz Kantor, Gretl Braun, Don Budge, and Joseph Greenberg. After him are Kunihiko Kodaira, Hanns Martin Schleyer, Kiyosi Itô, Thomas Merton, Arsenio Erico, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Among people deceased in 1998, Georgy Sviridov ranks 68. Before him are Anne Desclos, Agostino Casaroli, Marie-Louise Meilleur, Haxhi Lleshi, Ferenc Deák, and Roddy McDowall. After him are George Wallace, Frithjof Schuon, Lucio Battisti, Momoko Kōchi, Ted Hughes, and Remo Giazotto.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Georgy Sviridov ranks 614 out of 3,761. Before him are Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov (1943), Valerian Kuybyshev (1888), Sophia Perovskaya (1853), George Sanders (1906), Viktor Abakumov (1908), and Boris Sheremetev (1652). After him are Iosif Gurko (1828), Duchess Alexandra of Oldenburg (1838), Hans Pfitzner (1869), Aleksei N. Leontiev (1903), Alexander Grin (1880), and Maria Miloslavskaya (1624).

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Among COMPOSERS In Russia

Among composers born in Russia, Georgy Sviridov ranks 22. Before him are Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov (1883), Anton Arensky (1861), Sergei Taneyev (1856), Rodion Shchedrin (1932), Anatoly Lyadov (1855), and Nikolai Medtner (1879). After him are Hans Pfitzner (1869), Alexander Dargomyzhsky (1813), Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov (1859), Vasily Kalinnikov (1866), Aleksandra Pakhmutova (1929), and Gennady Rozhdestvensky (1931).

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