Vano Muradeli, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Vano Muradeli

Soviet composer

Date of Birth: 06-Apr-1908

Place of Birth: Gori, Shida Kartli, Georgia

Date of Death: 14-Aug-1970

Profession: composer, film score composer

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Vano Muradeli (Georgian: ???? ????????; Russian: ???? ????? ????????; 6 April [O.S.
24 March] 1908 in Gori – 14 August 1970, in Tomsk), was a Soviet Georgian composer. He was born in Gori, Georgia (then part of Imperial Russia) to Georgian -Armenian parents.
He graduated from Tbilisi State Conservatory in 1931.
From 1934 to 1938, he worked at the Moscow Conservatory.
From 1942 to 1944, he served as a principal and artistic director of the Central Ensemble of the Soviet Navy.
In 1946, he was awarded the Stalin Prize.
In 1948, his opera The Great Friendship was censured by the resolution of the Communist Party Central Committee.
After Joseph Stalin's death, he was restored to favor and granted the title of the People's Artist of the USSR in 1968.
His later works include the operetta Moscow-Paris-Moscow (1968).