Lev Eduardovich Conus (1871–1944) was a Russia

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n pianist

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, music educator, and composer

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. A brother of the composers Georgi Conus

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 and Julius Conus

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, he studied together with Sergei Rachmaninoff

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 in Anton Arensky

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's advanced composition

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 class and served as chief professor of piano at the Moscow Conservatory

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 until 1918. Leaving the Soviet Union

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 for Paris

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 in 1921, he subsequently taught at the city's Russian Conservatory

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, before finally moving to the United States

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 in 1935. He taught in Cincinnati

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until his death at the age of 73.