Nikolay Ivanovich Peyko or Peiko (Николай Иванович Пейко) (Moscow

Moscow

Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...

, 1916 - Moscow

Moscow

Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...

, 1995) was a Russian composer and professor of composition.

Peyko studied composition at 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...

 under Nikolay Myaskovsky, graduating in 1940, then working in a military hospital during the Second World War and teaching at the Moscow Conservatory 1942-1949. From 1959 till retirement Peyko was professor of composition at the Gnessin State Musical College

Gnessin State Musical College

The Gnessin State Musical College and Gnessin Russian Academy of Music is a prominent music school in Moscow, Russia...

 where his students included Sofia Gubaidulina

Sofia Gubaidulina

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Works

• Symphonic suite “From the Legends of Yakutia” (1940)
• Dramatic Overture (1941)
• First Symphony (1946)
• Moldavian suite for orchestra (1950)
• Seven pieces on folklore themes (1951)
• Fantasy on Finnish themes (1953)
• Oratorio/opera Tsar Ivan’s Night (1968) after the text of A. K. Tolstoy.
• Ballet Joanne d’Arc after Schiller