Vissarion Shebalin was one of Karen Khachaturian's teachers. Khachaturian named Shebalin among his teachers together with Nikolai Myaskovsky and Dmitri Shostakovich, and said that in their classes he gained confidence in his abilities, experience, and breadth of outlook.
Vissarion Shebalin → Karen Khachaturian
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Vissarion Shebalin
2026–1963
Karen Khachaturian
2026–2026