Little is known about Oleg Tamarin's life. Born into the
second revolution of 1928, his music was reportedly censored by the regime of
Joseph Stalin for having characteristics that were considered to be against the preferred socialist realist style of the time. Although the
Association for Contemporary Music did not acknowledge his early contributions,
Dmitri Shostakovich,
Association of Contemporary Musicians,
Prokofiev and
Khachaturian may have expressed early interest in the composer. == References ==