US EditionRodion Shchedrin, the Celebrated Russian Composer, Has Died at Age 92
Rodion Shchedrin, who composed over 80 works blending Russian folk and avant-garde styles, led the Union of Composers of Russia and influenced global classical music stages.
- Rodion Shchedrin, the celebrated Russian composer, has died in Germany at the age of 92, according to Moscow's Bolshoi Theater.
- Shchedrin's works included operas and ballets that blended Russian folk influences and classical techniques, with his 1972 ballet 'Anna Karenina' being widely performed.
- The Bolshoi Theater called Shchedrin's passing 'a huge tragedy and an irreparable loss for the entire world of art.'
- Shchedrin was president of the Union of Composers of Russia, succeeding Dmitri Shostakovich.
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Rodion Shchedrin, the celebrated Russian composer, has died at age 92
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian composer Rodion Shchedrin, who created the celebrated ballets “Anna Karenina” and the “Carmen Suite,” has died in Germany at age of 92, Moscow’s Bolshoi Theater said Friday. He and his wife of 57 years, legendary ballerina Maya Plisetskaya, dominated the Soviet and Russian cultural scene for the latter part of the last century. She died in 2015. Shchedrin’s work ranged from choral music and concertos to opera and ballet, bl…
Russian composer Rodion Shchedrin died at the age of 92.
To the demise of the Russian composer Shchedrin, the Bolshoi Theatre takes place in superlatives: phenomenon, genius and a one-man epoch. He became 92 years old.
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Russian composer Rodion Shchedrin dies aged 92: Bolshoi
Russian composer Rodion Shchedrin, whose work included famed ballets such as "Anna Karenina" and "Carmen Suite", has died at the age of 92, Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre said Friday, calling his passing an "enormous tragedy".
Rodion Shchedrin is one of the most famous Russian composers. For his wife, the famous prima ballerina Maja Plissezkaja, he wrote a suite as a musical proof of love. Now he died.
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