Konstantin Vinogradov
Konstantin Petrovich Vinogradov (15 June 1899 – 23 August 1980) was a Soviet choral conductor and music teacher. He was born and died in Moscow.
In 1925, Vinogradov graduated from the piano department of the Gnesins Moscow Music School, where he studied with Elena Gnesina. From 1923 to 1936 he worked at the Stanislavsky Opera Theatre in Moscow as a répétiteur, chief choirmaster, and later chief conductor.
He served as choirmaster of the State Academic Russian Choir of the USSR from 1936 to 1939 and as its acting artistic director from 1939 to 1941. Between 1942 and 1946 he led the Song and Dance Ensemble of the Local Air Defence. From 1946 to 1965, he was chief choirmaster of the A. V. Alexandrov Twice Red Bannered Academic Song and Dance Ensemble of the Soviet Army.
Vinogradov taught at the Gnesins Moscow Music School from 1924 to 1953, leading classes in choral singing, chamber singing, and accompaniment. He took part in establishing the school’s conducting and choral faculty. In 1956 he completed the conducting and choral department of the Gnesins Moscow State Music and Pedagogical Institute. From 1965 he taught at the Moscow State Institute of Culture, becoming an associate professor in 1967.
He wrote the book Work on Diction in the Choir (1967). Vinogradov was named People’s Artist of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in 1960 and received the first-degree Stalin Prize in 1950 for his concert performance work as part of the Alexandrov Ensemble. His other awards included the Order of the Badge of Honour, the Order of the Red Star, and the Medal for the Defence of Moscow.