Vano Muradeli

Vano Muradeli (Georgian: ვანო მურადელი; Russian: Вано Ильич Мурадели; 6 April [O.S.

He was born in Gori, Georgia (then part of Imperial Russia) to Georgian[1][2] -Armenian parents.

[3] He graduated from Tbilisi State Conservatoire in 1931; then studied with Nikolai Myaskovsky at the Moscow Conservatory.

In 1948, his opera The Great Friendship was censured by the resolution of the Communist Party Central Committee.

After Joseph Stalin's death, he was restored to favor and granted the title of the People's Artist of the USSR in 1968.