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Alemdar Sabitovich Karamanov (Алемдар Сабітович Караманов) is a Crimean composer (he wrote the Crimean national anthem) whose prolific symphonism has produced more than 24 symphonies. Karamanov, son of a Russian mother and Turkish father, was born in Simferopol, inland Crimea, on 10 September 1934. Surviving the German occupation from July 1942 to May 1944, he studied at the Crimean Music College in Simferopol and then at the Moscow State P.I.Tchaikovsky Conservatoire (1953-1958). Here, among contemporaries including Rodion Shchedrin, Edison Denisov, Andrey Volkonsky, Sofia Gubaidulina and Alfred Schnittke, he was a composition student of S. Bogatiryov (1953-58), completing his post-graduate studies...