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Died a famous spiritual composer Nikolai Vedernikov

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Died a famous spiritual composer Nikolai Vedernikov

died In Moscow spiritual composer, the oldest cleric of the Moscow diocese, Nikolai Vedernikov.

the Acting rector of St. John the Warrior on Yakimanka street Archpriest Gennady Heroes told RIA Novosti that the Vedernikov died on 9 June on the eve of his birthday. Today he would have been 92 years old. In recent years he became blind and was a provincial cleric of the temple. The funeral service will be held on Friday.

Nikolai Vedernikov shifted to the music of many hymns. According to Archpriest Gennady Geroyev in musical circles father Nicholas was a very famous and many composers brought to the faith.

In turn, the chief conductor of the Moscow Synodal choir Alexei Puzakov said that works Vedernikov carry the traditions of ancient music. “Music and he has an extraordinary, very bright. Through music you can see his soul, his faith and the beauty that he got through the prayer and Ministry of the Christian Church,” said Puzakov.

Father Nikolai Vedernikov graduated from the Moscow Conservatory, and after in absentia Leningrad theological Seminary and Moscow theological Academy. Began to serve in the Church of the Nativity in Izmailovo, was rector of the Church of the Nativity of John the Baptist in Ivanovskoye, and since 1989 in the Church of St. John the Warrior on Yakimanka. Here he funeral of pianist Sviatoslav Richter and the composer Alfred Schnittke. In an interview Vedernikov told how waited another Patriarch Sergius (1867-1944) and Alexius I (1877-1970).