St Petersburg Union of Composers Veniamin Yefimovich Basner, V.A. Gavrilin, L.A. Desyatnikov, A.A. Kneifel, A.N. Kolker, S.M. Slonimsky, B.I. Tishchenko, V.A. Uspensky, G.I. Ustvolskaya, Y.A. Falik, I.I. Schwarz and A.B.Zatin became members of the Leningrad Department of the Union of Composers. These composers and musicians played an outstanding role in the musical life of the city in the last third of the 20th century. Since 1964, the St. Petersburg Musical Spring festival has been held annually. Since 1989, the Children's Musical Festival has been organised which includes children's competitions: the Bruk and Taymanov memorial Competition of Piano Duets, Brother and Sister, and the Gavrilin Competition
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