Viktor Voloshinov was a Soviet composer and music educator, born in Kyiv on October 4/17, 1905. He died in Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, on October 21, 1960.
He studied at the Lysenko Kyiv Music Institute in 1924–1925, then moved to Leningrad and entered the Leningrad Conservatory. There he studied composition with Mikhail Chernov and Vladimir Shcherbachyov. Voloshinov began teaching music theory at colleges in 1927. After completing graduate studies at the conservatory in 1932, he joined its faculty as a composition teacher, became an associate professor in 1935, and a professor in 1952.
In 1947, he defended a dissertation on the principles of harmonizing Russian folk songs in relation to their modal structure. He became head of the conservatory’s composition department in 1948. His students included Boris Tishchenko and other Leningrad composers of later generations.
His works included the orchestral pieces Dance in a Circle (1935) and Uzbek Suite (1944), the unfinished Arctic Symphony (1949), a violin concerto, a string quartet, songs, and choral works. He received the Order of the Badge of Honor in 1949.