Background
MURADELI, Vano was born in 1908 in Gori, Georgia, United States.
MURADELI, Vano was born in 1908 in Gori, Georgia, United States.
1931 graduated composition class, Tbilisi Conservatory. 1938 graduated composition class, Moscow Conservatory.
1939-1948 Presidium member, Organization Committee, USSR Union of Composers, and Chairman, USSR Musical Fund. 1954 received title of Honoured Art Worker of Kabardinian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic for his arrangement of Circassian folk songs dating from the Balkars’ exile in Siberia and Central Asia. In the special Central Committee, All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) decree of February 1948 “On V. Muradeli’s Opera ‘Velikaya Druzhba’” (Great Friendship) he was sharply criticized and accused of “anti-popular tendencies and formalism in music”.
In the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union decree of May 28, 1958 “Concerning Rectification of Errors in Assessment of the Operas 'Velikaya Druzhba’, ‘Bogdan Khmelnitsky’ and ‘Ot vsego serdtsa’” (With All One’s Heart), be and other composers were exonerated of accusations linking them with formalist tendencies and sham innovation. 1960 visited United States of America with group of Soviet public figures. 1941-1945 with rank of Colonel, Coastal Branch, Head and Artistic Director, Central Ensemble of USSR Navy.
Member, Communist Party, since 1942.
Member, Communist Party, since 1942.