Vasili Shirinsky

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Vasili Shirinsky

vn, RU
Musician / Composer / Conductor of Classical
A.k.a. Василий Петрович Ширинский

Vasili Shirinsky (1901–1965) was a Russian composer, violinist and conductor, brother of Sergei Shirinsky, one of the founding members and 2nd violin of the Beethoven Quartet (1923–65), professor and head of the Chamber Ensemble & Quartet department at the Moscow Conservatory (since 1957), People's Artist of the RSFSR (1965), and laureate of the first degree Stalin Prize (1946). He studied composition with Nikolai Myaskovsky at the Moscow Conservatory. In the 1920, Vasily Shirinsky had been playing in Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra and Persimfans. Dmitri Shostakovich dedicated his Eleventh Quartet to Vasili Shirinsky.

Genres

Classical
Soundtrack
World

Plays With

Beethoven Quartet

Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra

Band Members

Discography

Title	Artist	Year	Type
2-й Квартет Соч. 18, № 2, Соль Мажор	Ludwig van Beethoven - Beethoven Quartet : Dmitri Tsyganov, Vasili Shirinsky, Vadim Borisovsky, Sergei Shirinsky	1952	Album

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