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Ivan Aleksandrovich Shmelev was born on May 6, 1873 in Mezhenki, Voronezh, Russian Federation.
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Order of Lenin (1948)
Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1945)
Medal For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945 (1946)
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Ivan Aleksandrovich graduated from the Voronezh Teachers' Seminary in 1893 and the Moscow Conservatory, in the class of theory and composition (1905).
Career
Since 1901, Ivan Aleksandrovich lived in Sochi, taught music in a number of educational institutions of the city, was the regent of the choir of the Cathedral Church of St. Michael the Archangel. In 1910 he created the Sochi branch of the Russian Choral Society. Since 1920, Ivan Aleksandrovich fully committed to teaching, organized a number of children's musical groups and opened the first music school in Sochi in his own house.
During the Great Patriotic War, Ivan Aleksandrovich organized concerts of a children's choir and orchestra for the wounded in hospitals. Together with his wife, Anna Efremovna, he raised 19 orphans and musically gifted children from remote villages of Sochi.
Author of the textbook "Counterpoint, Fugue and Musical Forms". He founded the first music school in Sochi, which in 1966 was named after him.
