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August Bernhard (1852–1908)

August Bernhard

Russian musicologist and educator of German descent (b. 1852; d. 1908), born Avgust Rudolf'ovich Berngard (Август Рудольфович Бернгард, Avgust Rudol'fovič Bernagard),

From 1872 to 1878 he studied music theory at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory under Julius Johansen and Nikolai Rimskii-Korsakov, where he later became a teacher (1878–1884), inspector (1884–1888), and eventually director (1897–1905).

Bernhard was responsible for translating Tchaikovsky's operas Evgenii Onegin and The Queen of Spades into German. In 1878 Tchaikovsky suggested him as his successor in the post of instructor of harmony and special theory at the Moscow Conservatory, although Bernhard did not take up this post.

Tchaikovsky's correspondence with August Bernhard:

• 1 letter from Tchaikovsky to August Bernhard has survived, dating from 1878.