Education
Leningrad Central Music College. Saint St. Petersburg Conservatory.
Leningrad Central Music College. Saint St. Petersburg Conservatory.
Solovyov-Sedoi composed, among others, the music for the songs Solov"i and Moscow Nights (Russian: Подмосковные вечера. Transliterated as "Podmoskovnye Vechera"). He also wrote music for numerous films.
Originally named Solovyov, when he entered the Russian "Composer"s Union" he added the suffix "Sedoi", meaning grey-haired, to avoid confusion with another composer with the same surname.
Union of Soviet Composers.