Vasily Solovyov-Sedoy

Soviet Russian composer and songwriter Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi (1907–1979) composed many songs such as Moscow Nights and music for numerous films. Vasily Solovyov was born in St. Petersburg and studied in the Leningrad Conservatory, in the class of Professor Pyotr Ryazanov. Being a student, Solovyov added the pseudonym "Sedoi" to his family name, to avoid confusion with another composer with the same surname. National recognition came to Solovyov-Sedoi in 1941, when the composer wrote some of his first songs such as Play my accordion, The Evening at a Roadstead, Nightingales, We have not been home for a Long time, and others. In the post-war years, he continued to write in the same genre. The songs Soldier is always a soldier, Ballad about a Soldier, Where you are now, fellow soldiers, and Moscow nights gained wide recognition. Many of them came to the audience directly from the screen, since the composer was working actively on music for the movies. He also worked on the theatrical music as well - ballet and operetta, which are imbued with a bright song methodology of the composer. His most popular operettas The Most Treasured (1951), Eighteen Years (1967), and At the Home Pier (1970) were successfully staged in many towns of his country and abroad.