Background
Kedrov was born in Saint St. Petersburg, Russian Empire, into the family of a Russian Orthodox archpriest.
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Nicholas Nikolayevich Kedrov
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From 1894 to 1897 he studied singing at the Saint St. Petersburg Conservatory, becoming an operatic baritone who performed at various theaters, including the Bolshoi and the Mariinsky Theatre.
Career
His setting of Otche Nash (The Lord"s Prayer) is one of the best-known in the repertoire. In 1897 he organized a men"s vocal quartet (Saint St. Petersburg Russian vocal quartet). Their first concert was held in 1898 at the Saint St. Petersburg Conservatory.
The repertoire of the quartet included Russian folk songs, ballads, opera music, then gradually liturgical music appeared.
The quartet each year successfully toured Europe, including participation in Diaghilev’s seasons. In 1913/1914 Feodor Chaliapin and the quartet recorded a musical album in London.
In 1917, Kedrov became a professor of the Saint St. Petersburg Conservatory. Some time after the October Revolution, in 1922, the family emigrated from Russia and lived in Berlin, in 1928 moved to France.
In Paris, Kedrov recreated the quartet (Quatuor Kedroff).
The quartet toured in Europe and North America. Kedrov taught at the Conservatoire Rachmaninoff in Paris. The most famous of his work as a composer is singing Our Father (ru: Отче наш).
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Nikolay Kedrov died on 2 February 1940 in Paris, aged 68.
He was interred in the cemetery of Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery.
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