Nikolai Roslavets

Nikolai Andreevich Roslavets (Russian: Никола́й Андре́евич Ро́славец; 4 January 1881 [O.S. 23 December 1880] in Surazh, Chernigov Governorate, Russian Empire – 23 August 1944 in Moscow) was a significant Russian modernist composer of Belarusian and Ukrainian origin. Roslavets was a convinced modernist and cosmopolitan thinker; his music was officially suppressed from 1930 onwards.

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