Alexander Zhurbin

Alexander Borisovich Zhurbin (Алекса́ндр Бори́сович Журби́н), born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan on 7 August 1945, is a Russian composer.
Alexander Borisovich Zhurbin was born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. He graduated from Special Music School in 1963. In 1969 he graduated from Tashkent Conservatory as a cellist and Gnessin Music College as a composer. He undertook postgraduate studies as a musicologist in Leningrad, where he in 1973 completed his PhD dissertation on the Symphonies of Gustav Mahler.
Zhurbin's first big success came in... meer