Pyotr Borisovich Ryazanov was a Russia

Russia

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n composer

Composer

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, teacher

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, and musicologist.

Biography

Born in Narva

Narva

Narva is the third largest city in Estonia. It is located at the eastern extreme point of Estonia, by the Russian border, on the Narva River which drains Lake Peipus.-Early history:...

 into a musical family, he entered the Saint Petersburg Conservatory

Saint Petersburg Conservatory

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, where he studied composition with Nikolay Sokolov and Aleksandr Zhitomirsky, orchestration

Orchestration

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 with Maximilian Steinberg

Maximilian Steinberg

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 and fugue

Fugue

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 with Leonid Vladimirovich Nikolayev

Leonid Vladimirovich Nikolayev

Leonid Vladimirovich Nikolayev was a Russian/Soviet pianist, composer and pedagogue.Nikolayev was born in Kiev in 1878. He studied at the Moscow Conservatory with Sergei Taneyev and Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov...

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Ryazanov started teaching at the Conservatory in 1925, where he taught among others Georgy Sviridov

Georgy Sviridov

Georgy Vasilyevich Sviridov was a Soviet Russian neoromantic composer....

, Andria Balanchivadze

Andria Balanchivadze

Andria Balanachivadze was a Georgian composer. He was the son of Meliton Balanchivadze, the composer, and brother of George Balanchine, the famous Georgian-American choreographer....

, Nikita Bogoslovsky

Nikita Bogoslovsky

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, Alexi Matchavariani, Anatoly Novikov, Vasily Pavlovich Solovyov-Sedoy, Orest Yevlakhov, Boris Mayzel, and Ivan Dzerzhinsky

Ivan Dzerzhinsky

Ivan Ivanovich Dzerzhinsky was a Russian composer. He is notable in that the work for which he best known, his opera Quiet Flows the Don , was more successful for its political potential than for any musical distinction.-Personal life and career:Born in Tambov, Dzerzhinsky had an extended formal...

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He was particularly interested in folk music

Folk music

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Ryazanov was evacuated from Leningrad

Leningrad

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 to Tashkent

Tashkent

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 during the blockade

Siege of Leningrad

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. He died in Tbilisi

Tbilisi

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 from typhoid fever

Typhoid fever

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External links

• Grove entry on Ryazanov
• Biography (Russian)