Vissarion Shebalin was one of Karen Khachaturian's teachers. Khachaturian credited Shebalin, together with Nikolai Myaskovsky and Dmitri Shostakovich, with helping him become a composer, and said that in their classes he gained confidence in his abilities, experience, and breadth of outlook.
Vissarion Shebalin → Karen Khachaturian
People in this connection
Vissarion Shebalin
teacher
Karen Khachaturian
student