Anatoly Nikolayevich Alexandrov (April 16, 1982) was a Russia

Russia

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n composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

 of works for piano

Piano

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 and for other instruments, and pianist

Pianist

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. His initial works had a mystical element, but he downplayed this to better fit Socialist realism

Socialist realism

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. He led a somewhat retiring life, but received several honors.

Alexandrov was the son of a Professor of Tomsk University. He attended the Moscow Conservatory

Moscow Conservatory

The Moscow Conservatory is a higher musical education institution in Moscow, and the second oldest conservatory in Russia after St. Petersburg Conservatory. Along with the St...

 (which he left in 1915), where he was a pupil of Nikolai Zhilyayev, Sergei Taneyev

Sergei Taneyev

Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev , was a Russian composer, pianist, teacher of composition, music theorist and author.-Life:...

 and Sergei Vasilenko (theory), Alexander Ilyinsky

Alexander Ilyinsky

Alexander Alexandrovich Ilyinsky was a Russian music teacher and composer, best known for the Lullaby , Op. 13, No. 7, from his orchestral suite "Noure and Anitra", and for the opera The Fountain of Bakhchisaray set to Pushkin's poem of the same name.Alexander Ilyinsky was born in Tsarskoye Selo...

 (composition) and Konstantin Igumnov

Konstantin Igumnov

Konstantin Nicolayevich Igumnov was a Russian virtuoso pianist and the teacher of many famous Russian pianists.Igumnov studied under Nikolai Zverev, and at Moscow Conservatory under Alexander Siloti and Pavel Pabst. He took theory and composition courses from Sergei Taneyev, Anton Arensky and...

 (pianoforte). His early music revealed the influence of Nikolai Medtner

Nikolai Medtner

Nikolai Karlovich Medtner was a Russian composer and pianist.A younger contemporary of Sergei Rachmaninoff and Alexander Scriabin, he wrote a substantial number of compositions, all of which include the piano...

 and Alexander Scriabin

Alexander Scriabin

Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin was a Russian composer and pianist who initially developed a lyrical and idiosyncratic tonal language inspired by the music of Frédéric Chopin. Quite independent of the innovations of Arnold Schoenberg, Scriabin developed an increasingly atonal musical system,...

. He was appointed Professor at the Moscow Conservatory in 1923.
Viktor Belyaev, Alexandrov's first biographer, wrote in 1926: "If Myaskovsky is a thinker, and Feinberg a psychologist, then Alexandrov is, before anything else, a poet." Alexandrov was also a strong proponent of Stanchinsky and edited much of his compositions for publication.

For orchestra

• Symphony No. 1 in C, Op. 92 (1965)
• Symphony No. 2 in B-flat, Op. 109 (1977/78)
• Piano concerto, Op. 102 (1974)
• Overture on Russian folksongs, Op. 29 (1915, rev. 1930)
• Overture on two Russian folksongs, Op. 65 (1948)
• Stage and Film music

Vocal music

• Two Worlds, opera (1916)
• The Forty-first, opera, Op. 41 (1933–35, unfinished)
• Béla, opera, Op. 51 (1940–45)
• Die wilde Bara, opera, Op. 82 (1954–57)
• Lewscha, children's opera, Op. 103 (1975)
• many songs for voice and piano

Chamber music

• String quartet No. 1 in G, Op. 7(1914, rev. 1921)
• String quartet No. 2 in C-sharp minor, Op. 54 (1942)
• String quartet No. 3, Op. 55 (1942)
• String quartet No. 4 in C major, Op. 80 (1953)
• Cello sonata in G major, Op. 112 (1981/82)

For piano

• Sonata No. 1 in F-sharp minor, Op. 4. "Märchensonate" (1914)
• Sonata No. 2 in D minor, Op. 12 (1918)
• Sonata No. 3 in F-sharp minor, Op. 18 (1920, rev. 1956 und 1967)
• Sonata No. 4 in C, Op. 19 (1922, rev. 1954)
• Sonata No. 5 in G-sharp minor, Op. 22 (1923, rev. 1938)
• Sonata No. 6 in G, Op. 26 (1925)
• Sonata No. 7 in D, Op. 42 (1932)
• Sonata No. 8 in B-flat, Op. 50 (1939–44)
• Sonata No. 9 in C minor, Op. 61 (1945)
• Sonata No. 10 in F, Op. 72 (1951)
• Sonata No. 11 in C, Op. 81 "Sonate-Fantasie" (1955)
• Sonata No. 12 in B minor, Op. 87 (1962)
• Sonata No. 13 in F-sharp minor, Op. 90 "Märchensonate" (1964)
• Sonata No. 14 in E, Op. 97 (1971)
• Preludes, Opp. 1 and 10 (Gutheil)
• Little Suite No. 1, Op. 33 (1929)
• Little Suite No. 2, Op. 78 (1952)
• Little Suite No. 3, Op. 101 (1973)
• "Obsession passée", 4 Fragments, Op. 6 (1911–17)
• "Eight Pieces after themes from Songs of the People of the USSR", Op. 46 (1937)
• "Romantic Episodes", 10 pieces, Op. 88 (1962)
• "Memories", 5 pieces, Op. 110 (1979)
• "Visions", 2 pieces, Op. 111 (1979, unfinished)
• 3 Etudes Op 31
• A Long-Forgotten Madness Op. 6 (1918)
• a great number of smaller pieces