Russian composer

Rodion Shchedrin

Opera Symphony Ballet

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Russian composer

Genres

Opera Symphony Ballet

Awards Received

USSR State Prize

Golden Medal for Merit to Culture

People's Artist of the USSR

Lenin Prize

State Prize of the Russian Federation

Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" II class

Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" III class

Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" IV class

Order of Lenin

Order of the Red Banner of Labour

Order of the Badge of Honour

Order of Saint Anna, 3rd class

People's Artist of the RSFSR

Honored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic

Order of Honour

Golden Mask

Music

Member of, past and present

Union of Soviet Composers

Association of Filmmakers of the USSR

Academy of Arts of the GDR

Academy of Arts, Berlin

Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts

Rodion Konstantinovich Shchedrin (Russian: Родио́н Константи́нович Щедри́н, romanized: Rodion Konstantinovič Ščedrin, pronounced [rədʲɪˈon kənstɐnʲˈtʲinəvʲɪtɕ ɕːɪˈdrʲin]; born 16 December 1932) is a Soviet and Russian composer and pianist, winner of USSR State Prize (1972), the Lenin Prize (1984), and the State Prize of the Russian Federation (1992), and is a former member of the Inter-regional Deputies Group (1989–1991). He is also a citizen of Lithuania and Spain.