Background
Khrennikov, Tikhon Nikolayevich was born on June 10, 1913 in Eletsk, Lipetsk, Russia. Son of Nikolay and Varvara (Kharlamova) Khrennikov.
Khrennikov, Tikhon Nikolayevich was born on June 10, 1913 in Eletsk, Lipetsk, Russia. Son of Nikolay and Varvara (Kharlamova) Khrennikov.
Moscow Conservatoire, attended Music Technology College, Moscow, 1929-1932.
Two Piano Concertos 1933, 1971, Five Pieces for Piano 1933, First Symphony 1935, Three Pieces for Piano 1935, Suite for Orchestra from Music for Much Ado About Nothing, In the Storm (Opera) 1939, Second Symphony 1941, incidental music for play Long Ago 1942, Frol Skobeyev (Opera) 1950, Mother (Opera) 1956, Concerto for Violin and Orchestra 1959, A Hundred Devils and One Girl (Operetta) 1961, Two Concertos for Violin 1964, 1976, White Nights (Operetta) 1967, Boy Giant (opera for children) 1969, Our Courtyard (ballet for children) 1970, Much Ado About Hearts (chamber opera) 1974, Third Symphony 1975, Love for Love (ballet) 1975, Concerto Number 2 for violin and orchestra 1976, The Hussars’ Ballad (Ballet) 1980, Dorothea (ballet) 1982-1983, The Golden Calf 1985. First Secretary, USSR Union of Composers, since 1948. Board member, Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic Union of Composers, since 1960. President, Music Section, All-Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, since 1948.
Deputy Chairman, Committee Lenin Prizes for Literature and Art, USSR Council of Ministers, since 1960. Popular Artist Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic since 1954. Member, Central Auditing Commission, Communist Party of the Soviet Union, since 1961.
1941-1954 Director of Music, Soviet Army Central Theater, Moscow. 1959 member, USSR composers delegation United States of America. Member, Soviet Committee the Defense of Peace.
Deputy, Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic Supreme Soviet of 1951, 1955 and 1959 convocation. Member, Commission for Public Education and Culture, Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic Supreme Soviet of 1959 convocation.
Composer: Three Piano Concertos, 1933, 1971, 1983, Five Pieces for Piano, 1933, First Symphony, 1935, Three Pieces for Piano, 1935, Suite for Orchestra from Music for Much Ado About Nothing, 1936, (incidental music) Don Quixote, 1941, Second Symphony, 1942, (plays) (incidental music) Long Ago, 1942, (Operas) In the Storm, 1939, Frol Skobeyev, 1950, Mother, 1956, A Hundred Devils and One Girl, 1963, Kithless Son-in-Law, 1966, White Night, 1967, Boy Giant, 1969, Much Ado About Hearts, 1974, Dorothea, 1983, Golden Calf, 1985, concert for violin & orchestra, concert for cello & orchestra, (ballets) Our Courtyard, 1970, Love for Love, 1976, The Hussars' Ballad, 1978, Third Symphony, 1973, concert 2 for violin & orchestra.
Religion in its origin doesn't give equal treatment to women and thus offends basic human rights.
Member, Communist Party, since 1947.
The Communist Party of the Soviet Union is the leading and guiding force of Soviet society, and the nucleus of its political system, of all state and public organizations.
Chairman, Tchaikovsky contest organizing committee International Music Festival in Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. Member of International Association Composers Unions (chair 1991-1992), German Academy Arts, Tiberia Academy, Santa Cecilia Academy.
Married Klara Arnoldovna Vax (Khrennikova) in 1936.