Tikhon Khrennikov

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Tikhon Khrennikov was born in Yelets in 1913.

Among much else, he left us three grand symphonies:
No. 1 in B-flat minor, opus 4 (1935)
No. 2 in C minor, opus 9 (1942)
No. 3 in A major, opus 22 (1973)

a multitude of operas

and a great many concertos for piano (4), violin (2) and cello (2).

He is also said to have produced three string quartets, but about the first two nothing is known.

- Third string quartet opus 33 (1988):

It has three short movements:

I Prelude / Intermezzo 
II Sad Dance
III Fugue

And it was performed by the Prokofiev quartet: