Soviet composer

Mikael Tariverdiev

Intro
Soviet composer
Genres
Awards Received
USSR State Prize
Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Lenin Komsomol Prize
People's Artist of the RSFSR
Honored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Member of, past and present

Union of Soviet Composers

Mikael Tariverdiev

Mikael Leonovich Tariverdiev (Russian: Микаэл Леонович Таривердиев, Armenian: Միքայել Թարիվերդիև; 15 August 1931 – 24 July 1996) was a prominent Soviet composer of Armenian descent. He headed the Composers' Guild of the Soviet Cinematographers' Union from its inception and is most famous for his movie scores, primarily the score to Seventeen Moments of Spring.