Matvey Blanter

Blanter received his education on the music institutes of Kursk and Moscow. Generally a author of tracks, dances and light music from the theater, Blanter proved helpful at theatres in Moscow, Magnitogorsk and Gorky. His function is certainly lyrical with a definite Russian personality. The tune =Katyusha= (1938) was internationally well-known, and it became the anti-Fascist hymn in Italy.