Boris Alexandrovich Tchaikovsky (1925-1996)
Soviet and Russian composer, pianist, teacher. People's Artist of the USSR (1985). Laureate of the USSR State Prize (1969), Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1969).
Born on September 10, 1925 in Moscow in a family of specialists in statistics and medicine. He studied at the Gnessin College and the Conservatory, where his teachers were L. Oborin, N. Myaskovsky, V. Shebalin and D. Shostakovich. He worked as an editor at the All-Union Radio, then devoted himself entirely to composition. He created many works of different genres, distinguished by his ability to first imagine them in his imagination and then write them down.
Since 1989, he has been a professor at the Composition Department of the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music. Among his students is Yu. Abdokov and S. Prokudin.
He was a member of the governing bodies of the USSR Union of Composers. He died on February 7, 1996 in Moscow, and was buried at the Armenian Cemetery.
