Mikhail Matveyev

Mikhail Alexandrovich Matveyev was a Soviet composer. He was born on June 2, 1912, in the village of Melentsy in Novograd-Volynsky Uyezd of Volhynian Governorate.

From 1928 to 1930, he worked as a musical designer and pianist at the variety theater of the Sevastopol House of the Fleet. In 1941, he graduated from the Leningrad Conservatory, where he studied composition in the class of M. F. Gnesin.

In 1942, Matveyev was director of the Leningrad branch of the publishing house Muzgiz. From 1942 to 1943, he headed the music sector of the Leningrad branch of the publishing house Iskusstvo. In 1944, he became executive secretary of the Leningrad organization of the Composers' Union.

In 1948, he was head of the music department of Leningrad Radio. From 1949, he was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Between 1962 and 1964, he served as deputy director for artistic affairs at the S. M. Kirov Opera and Ballet Theater.

From 1968 to 1970, he was deputy chairman of the board of the Leningrad organization of the Composers' Union of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. He died in 1994 and was buried in St. Petersburg at Krasnenkoye Cemetery.