Nikolai Tcherepnin
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Nikolai Nikolayevich Tcherepnin or Cherepnin was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. He was born in Saint Petersburg and studied under Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov at the Saint Petersburg Conservat
Tcherepnin in 1935
Sergei Prokofiev
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Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor who later worked in the Soviet Union. As the creator of acknowledged masterpieces across numerous music genres, he is regard
Nikolai Tcherepnin
…the St. Petersburg Conservatory to teach there. During his 13-year tenure (from 1909 onward as professor) he taught many notable students, including Sergei Prokofiev, Aleksandr Gauk, Yuri Shaporin, and Lazare Saminsky. In 1902 he became the regular conductor of the Russian Symphony Concerts and later made guest…
Prokofiev, c. 1918
Prokofiev, aged 9, with the score of his opera The Giant
Composer Reinhold Glière, Prokofiev's first composition teacher
Saint Petersburg Conservatory in 1913