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Rodion Konstantinovich Shchedrin (born December 16, 1932) is a Russian composer.He was born in Moscow and studied at the Moscow Conservatory under Yuri Shaporin. His early music is tonal, colourfully orchestrated and often includes snatches of folk music, while some later pieces use aleatoric and serial techniques.
Among his works are the ballets The Little Hump-backed Horse (1955), Carmen (1967, based on the opera Carmen by Georges Bizet) and Anna Karenina (1971, on the novel by Leo Tolstoy); the operas Not Only Love (1961), and Dead Souls (1976, after Nikolai Gogol's novel); piano concertos, symphonies, chamber and piano music and other works.
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