Vadim Nikolayevich Salmanov[1] (4 November 1912, in Saint Petersburg – 27 February 1978, in Leningrad) was a Soviet composer and pedagogue.
Salmanov learned to play the piano as a child from his father who was a professional metallurgical engineer.
[1] After graduating, he worked as a composer until the onset of World War II, when he enlisted in the Soviet Army and served from 1941 to 1945.
Later on in his life, Salmanov set poems by Federico García Lorca and Pablo Neruda as well as by Soviet poets.
The work uses Slavic folk melodies and a motto theme heard at the beginning of the first movement recurs in the Finale.