Vissarion Shebalin

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Vissarion Yakovlevich Shebalin (Russian: Виссарион Яковлевич Шебалин, 11th June 1902, Omsk–29th May 1963) was a Russian composer. His parents were school teachers. He studied in the musical college in Omsk. He was 20 years old when following the advice of his professor went to Moscow to show his first compositions to Glière and Myaskovsky. Both famous composers thought very highly of his compositions. Shebalin graduated from Moscow Conservatory in 1928. His diploma work was the 1st Symphony which the author dedicated to his professor Nikolai Myaskovsky. Many years later his last 5th Symphony was dedicated to his memory. In the 1920s Shebalin was a member of the ACM - Association for Contemporary Music; he was a participant of the informal circle of Moscow musicians — “Lamm’s group”, who gathered in the apartment of Pavel Lamm, a professor from the Moscow Conservatory. Shebalin was a close friend of Dmitri Shostakovich. After graduating from Moscow Conservatory, he worked there as a professor, and in 1935 became also a head of the composition class in Gnessin Musical College. In the very difficult years of 1942-1948 he was a director of the Moscow Conservatory and the art director of the Central Musical School in Moscow. He fell victim to the Zhdanov purge of artists in 1948 and fell into obscurity afterwards. Among his students were L. Auster, Edison Denisov, Geza Frid, Tikhon Khrennikov, Karen Khachaturian, Aleksandra Pakhmutova, and others. Shebalin was one of the founde

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Shebalin: Complete Music for Violin & Piano

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Shebalin: String Quartet No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 2

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Shebalin: Orchestral Music, Vol. 1

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Shebalin: Symphony No. 1 & No. 3

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Shebalin: Orchestral Music, Vol. 2

Shebalin: The Complete A Cappella Choral Cycles

Vissarion Shebalin: The Complete Works for Six-String Guitar

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Nicolai Gedda in Moscow, October 6, 1980 (Live)

String Quartets Nos. 1-3 (Krasni Quartet)

String Quartets Nos. 6, 7 & 8 (Krasni Quartet)

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Shebalin: Russian Overture; Symphones No. 2 & No. 4

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String Quartets Nos. 4, 5 & 9 (Krasni Quartet)

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