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Sergey Balasanian
Person · male · Russian Empire · Ashgabat · born 1902 · died 1982
Soviet composer (1902–1982)
Also known as Sargis Balasanyan · Sergei Artemjewitsch Balassanjan · Sergueï Balassanian · 谢尔盖·巴拉萨尼安
Timeline
11 events✦ Award 9◦ Birth 1† Death 1
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1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
Biography
English biography167 words · 2 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1336675649
Biography
Sergey Artemyevich Balasanian (Russian: Серге́й Арте́мьевич Баласаня́н; 26 August 1902 – 3 June 1982) was a Soviet Armenian composer.
Life and career
Sergey Artemyevich Balasanian was born on 26 August 1902 in Ashgabat, Russian Empire. He studied at the Moscow Conservatory (MC) where he graduated with a degree in music history in 1935. One of his teachers at the MC was Dmitry Kabalevsky with whom he studied music composition.
He joined the academic staff of the Moscow Conservatory in 1948; ultimately rising to the position of chair of the music composition program from 1962-1971. Balasanian wrote the first Tajik opera – The Uprising at Vosse (first staged in 1939). It was debuted in Moscow in 1941 as part of a 10-day exhibition of Tajik art.
Sergey Balasanian was awarded the Stalin Prize (1949) and five orders. In 1964 he was named an Honored Art Worker of the Russian SFSR, and in 1970 he was decorated as People's Artist of the Tajik SSR.
Balasanian died in Moscow on 3 June 1982.
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 11 | 61.8th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 9 | 98.7th |
| Timeline events | 11 | 87.9th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
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Discography (0 release groups)
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Stats & PK
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| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 11 | 61.8th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 9 | 98.7th |
| Timeline events | 11 | 87.9th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Awards & honours
| Year | Award | Category | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1941 | Order of the Red Banner of Labour | won | |
| 1949 | Order of the Badge of Honour | won | |
| 1949 | Stalin Prize, 2nd degree | won | |
| 1954 | Order of the Badge of Honour | won | |
| 1957 | Order of the Red Banner of Labour | won | |
| 1957 | People's Artist of the Tajik SSR | won | |
| 1964 | Honored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic | won | |
| 1966 | Order of the Red Banner of Labour | won | |
| 1978 | People's Artist of the RSFSR | won |
Where this record comes from
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https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2272564seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Balasanianbiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Balasanian
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