Roman Ledenev - The Little House At The Edge Of The Glade (Домик на опушке), n. 21 from the collection The Little Ones
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Roman Semenovich Ledenev (Russian: Рома́н Семёнович Леденёв; ISO-9: Roman Semënovič Ledenëv) was a Soviet and Russian composer and music teacher, professor at the Moscow Conservatory. He was a People's Artist of the Russian Federation (1995).
Ledenev was born on 4 December 1930 in Moscow. In 1948, he graduated from the 'Central Music School' (in the class of E. I. Messner and V. Ya. Shebalin), and in 1955, he enrolled in Moscow Conservatory (in the class of N. P. Rakov, and A. N. Aleksandrovich), graduating in 1958 from the Conservatory in "Composition" (under the advisory of A. N. Aleksandrov).
From 1956 to 1964, he was a professor at Moscow State University, and taught polyphony, solfeggio, instrumentation, harmony, and composition (as an assistant).
In 1978, he began to formally teach his own composition class, becoming a fully fledged professor in 1991.
In 2006, Ledenev became a professor at the Central Music School as well, teaching a compositional class.
On 15 August 2019, Ledenov died, and was buried in Moscow in the Troekurovsky Cemetery.
He was a member of the Union of Composers of the USSR (Russian Federation), becoming the Union's secretary from 1970 to 1973, and then again from 1995 to 2006.
He was also a member of the Union of Cinematographers and the International Academy of Art.
The image before the music is House in the trees by Elena Guro, chosen by C. M for this video.
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