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Rodion Shchedrin(1932-2025)

  • Composer
  • Music Department
  • Writer
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Rodion Shchedrin was born on 16 December 1932 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He was a composer and writer, known for Vysota (1957), Prosti, narod pravoslavnyy (1993) and Kommunist (1958). He was married to Maya Plisetskaya. He died on 29 August 2025 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
BornDecember 16, 1932
DiedAugust 29, 2025(92)
BornDecember 16, 1932
DiedAugust 29, 2025(92)
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  • Awards
    • 2 wins total

Known for

Vysota (1957)
Vysota
7.0
  • Composer(as R. Shchedrin)
  • 1957
Prosti, narod pravoslavnyy
  • Composer
  • 1993
Boris Zelensky in Kommunist (1958)
Kommunist
7.2
  • Composer
  • 1958
Anna Karenina (1967)
Anna Karenina
7.0
  • Composer(as R. Shchedrin)
  • 1967

Credits

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Composer

  • Gianandrea Noseda conducts Shchedrin, Bartók, and Shostakovich
    TV Special
    • Composer
    • 2022
  • Bolshoi Ballet: Carmen Suite/Petrushka (2019)
    Bolshoi Ballet: Carmen Suite/Petrushka
    • Composer
    • 2019
  • The Car Man (2001)
    The Car Man
    8.0
    TV Movie
    • Composer
    • 2001
  • Prosti, narod pravoslavnyy
    • Composer
    • 1993
  • Boris Plotnikov in Idiot (1981)
    Idiot
    Short
    • Composer
    • 1981
  • Anna Karenina (1975)
    Anna Karenina
    6.8
    • Composer
    • 1975
  • Poster by Nikolay Kovachev (II)
    I doyde denyat
    7.0
    • Composer
    • 1973
  • Maya Plisetskaya in Carmen Syuta (1970)
    Carmen Syuta
    8.1
    TV Movie
    • Composer (as R. Shchedrin)
    • 1970
  • Syuzhet dlya nebolshogo rasskaza (1969)
    Syuzhet dlya nebolshogo rasskaza
    6.8
    • Composer
    • 1969
  • Anna Karenina (1967)
    Anna Karenina
    7.0
    • Composer (as R. Shchedrin)
    • 1967
  • The Little Humpbacked Horse (1962)
    The Little Humpbacked Horse
    7.9
    • Composer
    • 1962
  • Yuriy Tsarev in The Bath House (1962)
    The Bath House
    6.2
    • Composer
    • 1962
  • Yuriy Tsarev in A esli eto lyubov? (1962)
    A esli eto lyubov?
    7.2
    • Composer
    • 1962
  • Normandie - Niémen (1960)
    Normandie - Niémen
    6.4
    • Composer
    • 1960
  • Vasiliy Merkurev in Lyudi na mostu (1960)
    Lyudi na mostu
    6.7
    • Composer
    • 1960

Music Department

  • Part of a Blanced Breakfast
    • soundtrack
    • Completed
    • Short
  • Chris Trenfield in The Car Man (2016)
    The Car Man
    8.2
    • music
    • 2016
  • Carmen (1994)
    Carmen
    8.0
    TV Movie
    • music adaptor: Carmen and L' Arlesienne excerpts
    • 1994
  • No Drips Above Us (1984)
    No Drips Above Us
    5.9
    Short
    • stock music
    • 1984
  • Günlarin bir günü (1977)
    Günlarin bir günü
    5.5
    • music
    • 1977

Writer

  • Prosti, narod pravoslavnyy
    • play
    • 1993

Personal details

  • Official sites
    • Discogs
    • France's national library catalogue
  • Alternative names
    • Rodion Chtchedrine
  • Born
    • December 16, 1932
    • Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
  • Died
    • August 29, 2025
    • Munich, Bavaria, Germany(long illness)
  • Spouse
    • Maya PlisetskayaOctober 2, 1958 - May 2, 2015 (her death)
  • Parents
      Konstantin Mikhailovitch Chtchedrine
  • Other works
    Creator of the "Carmen Ballet", based on Bizet's opera.

Did you know

  • Trivia
    He studied at the Moscow Choral School and Moscow Conservatory, composition with Yuri Shaporin and piano with Yakov Flier, graduating in 1955.

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