Laureate Of The Stalin Prize.

[Tal Inbar]

I recently found list of composers and performers, awarded with the Stalin prize. You can learn about Stalin's taste in music from this list:

1941
Dunaevsky: Music from the films "Circus" and "Volga-Volga"
Gadzhibekov: "Ker oghlu", opera
Khachaturian: Violin Concerto
Miaskovsky: Symphony No. 21
Shaporin: "On the Field of Kulikovo", cantata
Shostakovich: Piano Quintet

1942
Khrennikov: Music to the film "The Swineherd and the Shepherd"
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7

1943
Ashrafi: Symphony No. 1 "Heroic"
Khachaturian: Gayaneh Ballet
Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No. 7
Shebalin: String Quartet No. 5


1944
No Prizes

1945
No Prizes.

1946
Feinberg: Piano Concerto No. 2
Gliere: Concerto for voice and orchestra
Kabalevsky: String Quartet No. 2
Karaev and Gajiev: "The Motherland", opera
Khachaturian: Symphony No. 2
Khrennikov: "At 6 p.m. after the War", music from the film
Liatoshinsky: Ukrainian Quintet
Muradeli: Symphony No. 2
Miaskovsky: String Quartet No. 9 - Cello Concerto
Popov: Symphony No. 2
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 - Piano Sonata No. 8 - Cinderella Ballet
Shaporin: "Story of the Battle for the Russian Land"
Shtogarenko: "My Ukraine", symphony
Sviridov: Piano Trio

1947
Prokofiev: Sonata No. 1 for violin and piano
Shebalin: "Moscow", cantata
Vasilenko: Mirandoline Suite

1948
Asafiev: Monograph on Glinka
Gliere: String Quartet No. 4
Kara Karayev: Leyli and Majnum, symphonic poem

1949
Amirov: Symphonic Mughams
Arutiunian: "The Motherland", cantata
Kabalevsky: Violin Concerto

1950
Gliere: "The Bronze Horseman"
Miaskovsky: Sonata No. 2 for cello and piano
Shostakovich: "Song of the Forest" - "The Fall of Berlin" for chorus

1951
Babadzhanian: "Heroic Ballad"
Dunaevsky: Music to the film "The Kuban' Cossacks"
Galynin: "Epic Poem"
Kabalevsky: "Taras's Family", opera
Miaskovsky: Symphony No. 27 - String Quartet No. 13
Prokoviev: "On Guard for Peace", oratorio
Taktakishvili: Symphony No. 1

1952
Ashrafi: Stalin Prize (nothing specific)
Belyi: Stalin Prize (nothing specific)
Shaporin: Romances for Voice and Piano
Shostakovich: Ten Poems for Chorus opus 88
Shtogarenko: "In Memory of Lesya Ukrainka", symphonic suite
Taktakishvili: Piano Concerto no 1


Additional information on Soviet composers is at:

http://ovar.myweb.nl/index.htm