Biography
Yury (also Iurii, Yury) Alexandrovich Shaporin (Russian: Юрий (Георгий) Александрович Шапорин; November 8 [O.S. October 27] 1887 - December 9, 1966) was a Russian Soviet composer.
His teachers included Nikolay Sokolov, Maximilian Steinberg and Nikolai Tcherepnin.
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