[1] Nasedkin showed a talent for music at a young age, composing an opera at age 7, The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish (Сказке о рыбаке и рыбке), and performing in public at age 9.
[2] He attended the Central Music School in Moscow from 1949 to 1961, where his teachers included Anna Artobolevskaya.
From 1961 to 1966, he studied at the Moscow Conservatory, where his piano teachers included Heinrich Neuhaus and Lev Naumov.
A recipient of the People's Artist of the Russian Federation title, Nasedkin was the president of Russia's Schubert Society.
He was a member of the Composers' Union of the USSR/RF and a professor at Moscow's Conservatory, where he taught from 1966.