Russian Дмитрий Борисович Кабалевский , commonly transliterated in English as Dmitri Borisovich Kabalevsky ) (1904 - 1987) His Life Dmitri Kabalevsky Kabalevsky was a celebrated Soviet composer. He was born in St. Petersburg on December 30, 1904. His father was a mathematician and expected Dmitri to study mathematics. Against his father's