Vadim Petrov Net Worth

Vadim Petrov Net Worth is
$500,000

Vadim Petrov Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018

This article is about the Czech composer. For the fraudster using an alias of Vadim Petrov, see Aarni Neuvonen.Vadim Petrov (24 May 1932, Prague, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech composer of Russian-Czech descent.Petrov is pianist and composer of classical and popular music. He stems from the family of a Russian emigrant of aristocratic origin (family Repnin), a family doctor, resident in Prague-Žižkov. At first, he attended a Russian high school in Prague district Pankrác, during which time he was preparing for his future piano and composition studies at the Music Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts (AMU), taking piano lessons with Berta Kabelá?ová and music theory and composition lessons with Miloslav Kabelá?. At the Academy he was Jaroslav ?ídký's student from 1952 to 1956. His graduation composition was the symphonic poem The Vítkov Hill (Vítkov – a place of the decisive battle in 1420). He worked in the Prague Municipal Education Centre where he was in charge of the Folk Entertainment department. In the 1960s he founded the People's Conservatory specialising in dance-music and jazz (now Jaroslav Ježek Conservatory and College), and became its first director.After crushing of the Prague Spring movement in 1968 his artistic work was banned. However, he managed to secure the position of professor at the Jan Deyl Conservatory and Secondary school for Visually Impaired. Later on he moved to the Prague Conservatory where he taught music theory and composition from 1976 to 1992. At present, he presides over the administrative board of Dilia, an international agency providing copyright protection.An awardee of the 2003 Supraphon Gold and Platinum Disc, Petrov has composed nearly 1300 works, concentrating in his production mainly on theatre, film, radio, and television music. Besides that, he is the author of traditionally conceived orchestral and chamber compositions, the so-called "easy listening", choral works, songs, popular chansons, or music for prose and poetry recitation. 

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