Nikolai Sidelnikov

{{short description|Russian composer}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Nikolai Sidelnikov

| image =

| birth_name = Никола́й Никола́евич Сиде́льников

| birth_date = {{birth date|1930|6|5|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Tver, Soviet Union

| death_place = Moscow, Russia

| alma_mater = Moscow Conservatory

| profession = Composer, Musical pedagogue

| death_date = {{death date and age|1992|6|20|1930|6|5|df=yes}}

| resting_place = Troyekurovskoye Cemetery

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Nikolai Nikolayevich Sidelnikov ({{langx|ru|Никола́й Никола́евич Сиде́льников}}; June 5, 1930, Tver – June 20, 1992) was a Russian Soviet composer.

Sidelnikov studied with E. O. Messner and Yuri Shaporin at the Moscow Conservatory. He taught at the Moscow Conservatory where he was a professor from 1981. Among his pupils were Audronė Žigaitytė, Vyacheslav Artemov, Eduard Artemyev, Dmitri Smirnov, Vladimir Tarnopolsky, Vladimir Martynov, Anton Rovner, Sergey Pavlenko, Ivan Glebovich Sokolov and Vladimir Bitkin. {{See LMST|Nikolai|Sidelnikov}}

His works include operas:

• Alen'kiy Tsvetochek (The Scarlet Flower, after S. Aksakov, 1974)
• Chertogon (opera dilogy after Nikolai Leskov: Zagul, Pokhmelye, 1978–1981)
• Beg (The Run after Mikhail Bulgakov, 1987)

a ballet:

• Stepan Razin

and also: 6 symphonies, an oratorio, cantatas, choral, chamber and vocal music.

• Russkie skazki (Русские сказки — The Russian Fairy Tales, 1968) - a concert for 12 players is one of his most notable compositions.