What is Rodion Shchedrin?
[[File:Scedrin-Plisecka1.JPG|thumb|300px|Rodion Shchedrin with his wife, [[Maya Plisetskaya]], in 2009]] '''Rodion Konstantinovich Shchedrin''' ({{lang-ru|Родио́н Константи́нович Щедри́н}}, ''Rodion Konstantinovič Ščedrin'', born December 16, 1932 in [[Moscow]]) is a Russian [[composer]] and pianist. He won many awards such as the [[Lenin Prize|Lenin]] (1984), [[USSR State Prize]] (1972) and the [[State Prize of the Russian Federation]] (1992). He is a former member of the [[Interregional Deputy Group]] (1989–1991). Shchedrin was married to Russian ballet dancer [[Maya Plisetskaya]] from 1958 until her death in 2015. ==Other websites== {{commonscat-inline}} *{{Official website|http://www.shchedrin.de}} ''The Plisetskaya-Shchedrin Foundation'' *[http://www.sikorski.de/340/en/shchedrin_rodion.html Rodion Shchedrin] on the [[Hans Sikorski|Sikorski]] website (publisher): portrait, biography (pdf) and works *[http://home.wanadoo.nl/ovar/shched.htm Rodion Shchedrin] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070810194710/http://home.wanadoo.nl/ovar/shched.htm |date=2007-08-10 }} *[http://home.wanadoo.nl/ovar/sovrev/shchfan.htm 'David Fanning on Rodion Shchedrin and his Second Symphony and Rodion Shchedrin on David Fanning's publication'] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070101045513/http://home.wanadoo.nl/ovar/sovrev/shchfan.htm |date=2007-01-01 }} *[http://www.kcstudio.com/shchedrin3.html Rodion Shchedrin interview] by Bruce Duffie *Ismene Brown: [http://www.theartsdesk.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=2228:theartsdesk-qa-composer-rodion-shchedrin&Itemid=80 theartsdesk Q&A: Composer Rodion Shchedrin] theartsdesk.com 18 September 2010 {{DEFAULTSORT:Shchedrin, Rodion}} [[Category:1932 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Russian composers]] [[Category:Russian pianists]] [[Category:Musicians from Moscow]] {{bio-stub}}