Vladimir Shainsky

Soviet and Russian composer (1925—2017)

Vladimir Shainsky belongs to the record of music as a figure whose work outlasted the moment that produced it.

The record lists Vladimir Shainsky as Soviet and Russian composer (1925—2017).

Vladimir Shainsky was born at Kyiv in 1925. His recorded nationality is the Soviet Union. He was educated at Moscow Conservatory and State Conservatory of Uzbekistan.

The twentieth century made work collective, expensive and political, with consequences that reached well beyond the people doing it.

He worked as composer, songwriter and film score composer.

Music outlives its context more reliably than any other art, and usually for reasons its makers did not predict.

His recorded fields of work are music.

His work was formally recognised with the USSR State Prize, Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" and Order of Honour.

That the work was done from the Soviet Union matters. Opportunity has never been evenly distributed, and where a person is based shapes which doors open and whose work gets seen.

Vladimir Shainsky died in 2017, aged 92. What survives is the work, which is the only durable form of a reputation.

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