Nikolai Roslavets

Nikolai Andreyevitch Roslavets (Russian: Николай Андреевич Рославец 4 January 1881 [O.S. 23 December], Dushatino, Ukraine - 1944, Moscow) was a significant Russian and also Ukrainian modernist composer of the period just before and just after the October Revolution. Though influential in the early years of the USSR as a champion of progressive Western composers, his music was politically suppressed at the end of the 1920s and he spent most of the remainder of his career virtually a ‘non-person’.