Belarusian Music

Here is some info about Bogatyrev  (Wiki):


Anatoly Bogatyrev

Anatoly Vasilyevich Bogatyrev (Belarusian: Анатоль Васільевіч Багатыроў; August 13 [O.S. July 31] 1913 – 2003) was a Belarusian composer and music teacher, seen as one of the leaders of the national school of Belarusian music.

Bogatyrev was born in Vitebsk, the son of a language teacher. He studied at the Vitebsk Music School, the Minsk School of Music, and the Conservatory of Belarus where he was taught composition by Vasily Zolotarev, a pupil of Rimsky-Korsakov.  He came to prominence while still in his twenties, being appointed chairman of the board of the Belarusian Union of Composers in 1938, and receiving the Stalin Prize in 1941. In 1948 he began teaching composition at the National Conservatory, Minsk, where he later became a deputy director.  He joined the CPSU in 1954, and was made a People's Artist of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1968. Bogatyrev died in 2003.



Selected works

Stage
In the Forests of Polesie, opera (28 August 1939, Minsk). After Yakub Kolas' "The Swamp".
Incidental music to Romashov's The Undimmed Stars (1941).
Nadezhda Durova, opera (22 December 1956, Minsk).
Incidental music to Lermontov's Masquerade.[3][5][6][7]


Vocal and choral
Poem on the Tale of a Bear, for solo voices, chorus, and orchestra (1937). After Pushkin's "Tale of the Female Bear".
The People of Leningrad, cantata (1941).
To the Belarusian Partisans, cantata (1943).
Belarus, cantata (1949).
Belarusian Songs, cantata (1967). Words: traditional and by Nil Gilevich.[3][4][7][8]

Orchestral
Symphony no. 1 (1946).
Symphony no. 2 (1947).
Concerto for Cello (1962).
Concerto for Double Bass (1964).
Chamber music[edit]Trio for violin, cello and piano (1935).
String Quartet (1941).
Variations and Suite on Byron's Manfred, for piano.



I'll post his Symphony No 1 shortly... interesting that an indirect student of Rimsky-Korsakov died as recently as 2003.