Russian Soviet composer (1913-2007)

Tikhon Khrennikov

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Russian Soviet composer (1913-2007)

Genres

Opera

Awards Received

Stalin Prize

USSR State Prize

Order of Lenin

Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"

Hero of Socialist Labour

Order of Honour

People's Artist of the USSR

Order of the Red Banner of Labour

Medal "For the Defence of Moscow"

Medal "For Strengthening of Brotherhood in Arms"

Medal "Veteran of Labour"

Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"

Jubilee Medal "60 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"

Jubilee Medal "50 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"

Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow"

People's Artist of the RSFSR

Merited Artist of the RSFSR

Lenin Prize

Polish Cultural Merit Order

Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"

Order of Lenin

Order of the Red Banner of Labour

Music

Member of, past and present

Union of Soviet Composers

Academy of Arts of the GDR

Tikhon Nikolayevich Khrennikov (Russian: Тихон Николаевич Хренников; 10 June [O.S. 28 May] 1913 – 14 August 2007) was a Russian and Soviet composer, pianist, and leader of the Union of Soviet Composers, who was also known for his political activities. He wrote three symphonies, four piano concertos, two violin concertos, two cello concertos, operas, operettas, ballets, chamber music, incidental music and film music.

During the 1930s, Khrennikov was already being hailed as a leading official Soviet composer. In 1948, Andrei Zhdanov, the leader of the anti-formalism campaign, nominated Khrennikov as Secretary of the Union of Soviet Composers. He held this influential post until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.