![]() ![]() In 1958, he married the prima ballerina Maja Plisetskaya. Despite his ability as a concert pianist, Shchedrin made the decision at an early stage to devote his career to composition and wrote his first ambitious works in his early twenties. He attended the Moscow Choral School and subsequently studied at the Moscow Conservatory with Jurij Schaporin (composition) and Jakow Flier (piano), graduating with distinction in 1955. ![]() ![]() Rodion Shchedrin was born on 16 December 1932 as the son of a composer and music teacher in Moscow. As soon as composers relinquish their trust in this intuition and rely in its place on musical ‘religions’ such as serialism, aleatoric composition, minimalism or other methods, things become problematic. I still today continue to be convinced that the decisive factor for each composition is intuition. ![]()
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