Grigory Frid

[1] Born in Petrograd, now St. Petersburg, Frid studied in the Moscow Conservatory with Heinrich Litinsky and Vissarion Shebalin.

The Diary of Anne Frank is a monodrama in 21 scenes for soprano and chamber orchestra, lasting about one hour.

[citation needed] The style of Frid's early music may be explained as conventional, written in the tradition of so-called "Socialist realism".

At the age of 55 he changed his style radically, turning to the twelve-tone and other more contemporary techniques of music composition.

Frid was known as having been a music propagandist and organiser of a series of lectures-concerts for young people at the "Moscow House of Composers" that were popular in the 1970s.