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Anton Arenskii

Anton Stepanovich Arenskii (Антон Степанович Аренский), was a Russian composer, conductor, and pianist, born at Novgorod on 30 June/12 July 1861.

In 1882 he graduated from the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, where he had studied composition under Nikolai Rimskii-Korsakov, and was appointed as a professor at the Moscow Conservatory, going on to teach Sergei Rakhmaninov and Aleksandr Skriabin, amongst others. From 1895 to 1901 Arenskii was director of the Imperial Chapel Choir in Saint Petersburg.

One of Arenskii's best-known compositions is his Variations on a Theme of Tchaikovsky, Op. 35a, which uses the melody of the Legend from Tchaikovsky's Sixteen Songs for Children, Op. 54.

Anton Arenskii died at Perkijarvi, Finland, on 12/25 February 1906, aged 44.

See also:

• Wikipedia entry for Anton Arensky (external site)

• IMSLP entry for Arensky, Anton Stepanovich (external site)

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