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Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi
Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi
Василий Соловьёв-Седой
	1982 Soviet postage stamp commemorating 75th anniversary of Solovyov-Sedoi's birth
Born	Vasily Pavlovich Solovyov; 25 April 1907; Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Died	2 December 1979 (aged 72); Leningrad, Soviet Union
Nationality	Russian
Occupation	Composer
Style	Classical

Vasily Pavlovich Solovyov-Sedoi (Василий Павлович Соловьёв-Седой; 25 April [O.S. 12 April] 1907 – 2 December 1979)^[1] was a Soviet classical composer and songwriter who was born and died in Leningrad.

Solovyov-Sedoi composed the music for many songs such as "Moscow Nights" (Russian: Подмосковные вечера) and "Nightingales" (Russian: Соловьи).^[2]^[3] He also wrote music for numerous films. The melody of the Moscow Nights by Solovyov-Sedoi resembles the famous On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away by Paul Dresser https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpXve4jdD3E Originally named Solovyov, when he entered the Union of Soviet Composers he added the suffix "Sedoi", meaning grey-haired, to avoid confusion with another composer with the same surname.^[2]

Filmography edit

Heavenly Slug (1945)
The First Glove (1946)
World Champion (1954)
Good Morning (1955)
Maksim Perepelitsa (1955)
Be Careful, Grandma! (1960)
Don Tale (1964)
The Salvos of the Aurora Cruiser (1965)
Virineya (1968)
Fitil (1975)
Sweet Woman (1976)
A Taiga Story (1979)

References edit

^ Василий Павлович Соловьёв-Седой (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2008-06-30. Retrieved 7 November 2010.
^ ^a ^b "Composer's Grandson Sues Over Melody Use". The St. Petersburg Times. 2005-03-01. Retrieved 7 November 2010.
^ Zhelezniy, Anatoly Ivanovich; Shemeta, Leonid Pavlovich (2010). Соловьи // Песенная летопись Великой Отечественной войны [Nightingales // Song Chronicle of the Great Patriotic War] (in Russian). Kyiv: Sovremennaya musyka. pp. 204–206.^{[ISBN missing]}