In 1956 she completed a post-graduate course led by the outstanding composer Vissarion Shebalin.
Vissarion Shebalin | Vissarion Zoidze | Vissarion Belinsky | Vissarion |
The young Shostakovich considered leaving Leningrad to study with him, and those who did become his students were eventually to include such composers as Aram Khachaturian, Dmitri Kabalevsky, Vissarion Shebalin, Rodion Shchedrin, German Galynin, Andrei Eshpai, Alexander Lokshin, Boris Tchaikovsky, and Evgeny Golubev, a teacher and prolific composer whose students included Alfred Schnittke.