Georgy Vasilyevich Sviridov (Russian: Георгий Васильевич Свиридов, Ge'orgy Vasil'jevič Svirídov; (December 16, 1915 – January 5, 1998), also transliterated Georgy Vasil'yevich Sviridov, Georgy Vasilievich Sviridov, Georgy Vasil'evich Sviridov, Georgii Sviridov or Gyorgy Sviridov, was a Russian and Soviet neoromantic composer. Georgy Vasilyevich Sviridov was born in 1915 in the town of Fatezh in the Kursk guberniya of the Russian Empire. His father, Vasily Sviridov, a sympathizer of the Bolshevik cause during the Russian Civil War that followed the Russian Revolut…
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