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Lev Konius

Lev Eduardovich Konius (Лев Эдуардович Конюс) was a Russian pianist and teacher, also known in the West as Leo Konyus, was born in 1871, the youngest son of the piano teacher and music critic, Eduard Konstantinovich Konius (1827–1902), and brother to Georgii Konius and Iulii Konius.

Konius studied at the Moscow Conservatory in Anton Arenskii's advanced composition class, and in 1893 he assisted Tchaikovsky with the piano arrangement of his Symphony No. 6, while his older brother Iulii advised the composer on matters of violin technique in the symphony.

In 1912 Lev Konius was appointed professor of piano at the conservatory in Moscow, where he also founded a piano school. He left Russia in 1920 for Paris, where he taught at the city's Russian Conservatory, before moving to the United States in 1935 to teach at Cincinnati Music College.

Lev Konius died in Cincinnati in 1944.

See also:

• Wikipedia entry for Lev Conus (external site)

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