"The Bolshoi Theatre, where Shchedrin worked for many years, praised him in a statement for his priceless creative legacy. This is a huge tragedy and an irreparable loss for the entire world of art, it said. Born into a family of musicians in Moscow in 1932, Shchedrin graduated from the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory. He married Plisetskaya in 1958, writing The Seagull and The Lady With the Dog, based on the works of Anton Chekhov, as well as Anna Karenina for her."
"Some of Shchedrin's work, particularly the Carmen Suite, received a frosty reception from Soviet officials, with then culture minister Ekaterina Furtseva decrying it as crude. The music of the opera is mutilated, she declared, according to Russian state news agency Tass. In 1973, Shchedrin became president of the Union of Composers of Russia, replacing Dmitri Shostakovich. From the late 1980s onward, Shchedrin split his time between Moscow, Munich and Switzerland."
Rodion Shchedrin, born in Moscow in 1932 to a family of musicians and a graduate of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, died in Germany at age 92. His oeuvre included choral music, concertos, opera and ballet, combining Russian folk elements, classical traditions and avant-garde technique. His 1972 ballet Anna Karenina remains widely performed. He married ballerina Maya Plisetskaya in 1958 and wrote several works for her. Some compositions, notably the Carmen Suite, provoked official criticism in the Soviet era. He served as president of the Union of Composers of Russia from 1973 and lived between Moscow, Munich and Switzerland later in life.
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