Sergei Razorenov

Sergei Alekseyevich Razorenov (1909–1991) was a Soviet composer and music editor. A descendant of the Razorenov family of factory owners, he spent his youth in Staraya Vichuga between 1917 and 1924 before attending the Khrenov Pedagogical Technicum. He completed his professional education at the Moscow Conservatory in 1939, where he studied composition under Nikolai Myaskovsky, analysis of forms with Leo Mazel, orchestration with Dmitri Rogal-Levitsky, and piano with Yakov Ginzburg.

Razorenov dedicated much of his career to editorial work within the Soviet musical establishment. From 1946 to 1954, he led a seminar for young composers at the Union of Composers of the USSR. He held successive editorial positions at the USSR Music Fund (1946–1949), Muzgiz (1949–1964), the 'Muzyka' publishing house (1964–1968), and 'Sovetsky Kompozitor' (1968–1973). In his later years, he lived in a communal apartment on the Arbat in Moscow.

His creative output includes symphonic works, instrumental pieces, romances, and songs. Among his orchestral compositions are the 'Fantasy on Slavic Themes' (1943), the 'Symphony-Legend in Memory of Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya' (1952), and the symphonic poem 'Year 1905' (1957). He also wrote a Violin Concerto (1945), chamber music including a Quartet on Mordovian Themes (1944), and numerous works for piano, such as a Sonatina for the Left Hand (1938) and a Siberian Rhapsody (1961).

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