Georgy Sviridov

Georgy Sviridov

Georgy Vasilyevich Sviridov (Russian: Гео́ргий Васи́льевич Свири́дов; his patronymic is also transliterated Vasil'yevich, Vasilievich, and Vasil'evich; 16 December 1915 – 6 January 1998) was a Soviet and Russian neoromantic 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, 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 the influence of Eastern European folk music, 19th-century European romantic composers (especially Tchaikovsky), and neoromantic contemporaries outside of Russia. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Georgy Sviridov has received more than 159,421 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Georgy Sviridov is the 573rd most popular composer (down from 500th in 2019), the 716th most popular biography from Russia (down from 621st in 2019) and the 26th most popular Russian Composer.