Pavel Grigorievich Chesnokov is best known for composing which choral work?
Pavel Chesnokov Pavel Grigorievich Chesnokov (Russian: Павел Григорьевич Чесноков) (24 October 1877, Voskresensk, Zvenigorod uyezd, Moscow Governorate – 14 March 1944, Moscow), also transliterated "Tschesnokoff", "Tchesnokov", "Tchesnokoff", and "Chesnokoff", was an Imperial Russian and Soviet composer, choral conductor and teacher. He composed over five hundred choral works, over four hundred of which are sacred. Today, he is most known for his piece "Salvation is Created" as well as works such as "Do Not Reject Me in Old Age" (solo for basso profondo) and movements from various settings of the Divine Liturgy of St John Chrysostom.
God Save the Tsar! "God Save the Tsar!" (Russian: Боже, Царя храни! ; transliteration: Bozhe, Tsarya khrani!) was the national anthem of the Russian Empire. The song was chosen from a competition held in 1833 and was first performed on 18 December 1833. The composer was violinist Alexei Lvov, and the lyrics were by the court poet Vasily Zhukovsky. It was the anthem until the Russian Revolution of 1917, after which "Worker's Marseillaise" was adopted as the new national anthem until the overthrow of the Russian Provisional Government.