Gennady Vorobyov (1918-1939): Symphony in C minor (1937-1939), Moscow recording

Gennady Vasilyevich Vorobyov (Геннадий Васильевич Воробьёв) was born on August 13, 1918, in Cheboksary, the capital city of Chuvashia in Russia’s Volga Upland. The Chuvash people are the largest Turkic ethnic group whose predominant religion is not Islam, but Russian Orthodox Christianity. In 1935 Vorobyov went to the Moscow Conservatory where he was to become a pupil of Nikolai Myaskovsky and a fellow student of Nikolai Peiko. During a vacation in Cheboksary, he died from typhus on August 28, 1939 - shortly after his 21st birthday, having almost finished his first symphony. Peiko completed it, and it was performed as early as 1940 in the Moscow Conservatory.