Rodion Shchedrin

Rodion Shchedrin (1932-2025) was a Russian composer and pianist, born in Moscow. He studied at the Moscow Conservatory with Yuri Shaporin (composition) and Yakov Flier (piano), graduating in 1955. He married the ballerina Maya Plisetskaya in 1958 and wrote several ballets for her, among them the Carmen Suite (1967), his arrangement of Bizet's Carmen. Shchedrin's works include the Piano Concerto No. 1 (1954), the Concerto for Orchestra No. 1 Naughty Limericks (1963), the 24 Preludes and Fugues (finished 1970), Polyphonic Notebook (1972), Piano Concerto No.