Aleksandrov, Yury Mikhailovich

Aleksandrov [Alyiksándruhff], Yury Mikhailovich (8–19/9–1–1914, Tashkent). Grad 1942 from the M. Cons., where he was a pupil of Litinsky and Shebalin. Taught at the Gnesin Institute (1953–59), then became editor-in-chief of Muzyka (1969). Heroic-revolutionary subjects are frequent in his works, as in Caucasus and the Second Sym. dedicated, respectively, to the memory of the liberators of the Caucasus in World War II and to the fighters in the 1905 Russian Revolution. Works: Sort…