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KONDRATIEV Sergey Alexandrovich [27 III (8 IV) 1896, Petersburg - 13 I 1970, Washington] - Soviet composer, musicologist-folklorist, researcher USA, Mong., Yakut. and Komi Nar. music. In 1922 he graduated from physics and mathematics. Petrogr. University. Muses He was educated by the pianist M. S. Arenskaya, music-theoretical. studied subjects at MM Chernov. He began to compose music at the age of 15. In 1923 he participated in an expedition to Mongolia at hand. famous traveler P.K. Kozlov. I recorded it on the phonograph of St. 1000 mong. songs. That means. place in the work of K. is music for the theater. performances, in 1931-36 the head. musespart of Mosk. Drum Theater, in 1937-38 conductor Center. Theater of the Red (now Soviet) Army. The author of a cycle of romances in English texts. poets. He translated The Formation of Music by R. Vaughan-Williams (1961) and On Music and Musicians by B. Shaw (1965) and wrote the preface to these books.