- known as
- composer, choreographer, musicologist, university teacher, pianist, music critic, politician, film score composer, music educator
- awards
- Stalin Prize, USSR State Prize, 1967, Order of Lenin, 1963, Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Hero of Socialist Labour, 1973, Order of Honour, 1998, People's Artist of the USSR, 1963, Order of the Red Banner of Labour, 1966, Medal "For the Defence of Moscow", Medal "For Strengthening of Brotherhood in Arms", Medal "Veteran of Labour", 1995, Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Jubilee Medal "60 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Jubilee Medal "50 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow", People's Artist of the RSFSR, Honored Artist of the RSFSR, 1950, Lenin Prize, 1974, Polish Cultural Merit Order, Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow", Medal of Friendship, Grand Star of People's Friendship, 1983, Order of Cyril and Methodius, Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Stalin Prize, 2nd degree, 1942, Glinka State Prize of the RSFSR, 1979, Prize of the President of the Russian Federation, 2003, Prize of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, UNESCO Mozart Medal, Star of People's Friendship, Order of Cyril and Methodius, 1st Class, 1968, Officer of Arts and Letters, 1994, Order of Lenin, 1971, Order of Lenin, 1973, Order of Lenin, 1983, Order of the Red Banner of Labour, 1988, Stalin Prize, 2nd degree, 1946, Stalin Prize, 2nd degree, 1952
- member of
- Union of Soviet Composers, Academy of Arts of the GDR
