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; died on 5 March 1952, Leningrad

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n composer

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 of the Soviet era.

He studied with Maximilian Steinberg

Maximilian Steinberg

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, Anatoly Lyadov, and Jasep Vitols (Joseph Witol) at the St. Petersburg Conservatory

Saint Petersburg Conservatory

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 from 1908 to 1914. While there he also worked as a pianist

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 for Sergey Diaghilev and taught theory

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. He served in World War I

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 and then worked in Soviet government music positions. In 1918-1923 he worked as a lecturer and ran the musical department of the Narkompros. He later became a professor at the Leningrad Conservatory

Saint Petersburg Conservatory

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 (1923-1931 and 1944-1948) and the Tbilisi Conservatory

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. He counted Boris Arapov, Vasily Velikanov, Evgeny Mravinsky

Evgeny Mravinsky

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, Gavriil Popov, Valerian Bogdanov-Berezovsky, Pyotr Ryazanov

Pyotr Borisovich Ryazanov

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, and Mikhail Chulaki

Mikhail Chulaki

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 among his pupils, as well as various others.

Works

• Anna Kolossova, opera (1939, unfinished);
• Tabachny Kapitan, operetta (1943);
• Five symphonies:
  • No. 1 (1914),
  • No. 2 (with soloists and chorus, 1925);
  • No. 3 (Symphony-Suite, 1931);
  • No. 4 (Izhorskaya, with soloists and chorus, 1935);
  • No. 5 (Russian, 1948, 2nd version in 1950);
• Nonet for 7 instruments, voice and dancer (1919);
• Suite for string quartet (1939) and other chamber music;
• Two piano sonatas and other piano works;
• Various Romances;
• Film music:
  • The Thunderstorm (after Aleksandr Ostrovsky, 1934);
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    (1937-1939);
  • Polkovodets Suvorov (1941)
• Two Suites:
  • The Thunderstorm
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