Biography

Russian and Soviet composer, brother of V.M. Molotov. From childhood, Nikolai was interested in music. In his youth, he played in a home string quartet with his brothers, including Vyacheslav. In 1910 he graduated from the law faculty of Kazan University. He studied at the regency courses at the Kazan Musical College (violin class; he studied harmony with R. Gummert). I studied composition theory on my own. During the Great Patriotic War, Nikolai Mikhailovich Nolinsky lived and worked in the city of Kirov, where in 1941 he wrote the first symphony dedicated to the heroes of the Patriotic War, as well as a cantata about Stalin (1943). Later, h...Read More