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Georgii Konius

Georgii Eduardovich Konius (Георгий Эдуардович Конюс), also known in the west as Georgy Konyus or  Georges Conus, was a Russian composer and musicologist, born in Moscow on 18/30 September 1862, the eldest son of the piano teacher and music teacher Eduard Konstantinovich Konius (1827–1902), and brother to Iulii Konius and Lev Konius.

After graduating from the Moscow Conservatory, where he studied the piano with Pavel Pabst and composition with Sergei Taneev and Anton Arenskii, he was instructor of music theory at the same institution between 1891 and 1899. He later became professor of composition (1902–1906) and director (1904–1905) of the Moscow Philharmonic Society's music and drama institute, as well as professor of composition (1902–1919) at the Saratov State Conservatory.

Following the revolution, he remained in Russia as a member of the music section of the National Commissariat of Culture (1919–20), and then returned to the Moscow Conservatory as professor (from 1920 until 1933),.where he founded a department of music analysis. In 1922 he became a leading figure at the State Institute for Musical Research, and lectured in Germany and France during the 1920s. He left a small number of compositions, and essays on music theory.

Georgii Konius died in Moscow on 29 August 1933, aged 70.