Mikhail Iordansky

Mikhail Vyacheslavovich Iordansky (1901–1990) was a Soviet composer and an Honored Artist of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, a title he received in 1975.

He was born on December 28, 1901, in Kovrov, Vladimir Governorate, in the Russian Empire. He was the son of the court bailiff Vyacheslav Alexandrovich Iordansky and his wife Varvara Vladimirovna, a foreign-language teacher who played the piano well.

From 1915 to 1918 he studied at the Moscow Conservatory. In 1918 he joined the Red Army. Between 1919 and 1921 he served in the First Cavalry Army, while also taking part in amateur army performances and carrying out cultural and educational work. From 1921 to 1924 he continued his studies in Moscow at the Gnessin Music School, studying piano with Yevgenia Gnessina and music theory with A. T. Grechaninov.

In 1930 he graduated from the Moscow Conservatory, where he studied composition with A. N. Alexandrov. Earlier he had also studied in the class of G. E. Conus and orchestration with S. N. Vasilenko.

From 1935 to 1941 Iordansky headed the music department of the State Variety Theater for Children. From 1933 to 1952 he worked as an editor at Muzgiz, and from 1948 to 1952 he was editor-in-chief of the publishing house of the Music Fund of the USSR.

He was the author of popular children's songs, including “The Lapwing Song” (“By the Road, a Lapwing”), “Blue Sleds,” and “Cricket.” He died in 1990 in Moscow. His name is borne by Children's School of Arts No. 2 in the city of Kovrov.

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