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Nikolay Nikolayevich Tcherepnin
Also called:
Nicolas or Nicholas Tcherepnin
Tcherepnin also spelled:
Cherepnin
Born:
May 3 [May 15, New Style], 1873, St. Petersburg, Russia
Died:
June 26, 1945, Issy-les-Moulineaux, near Paris, France (aged 72)
Movement / Style:
nationalistic music
Russia
Notable Family Members:
son Alexander Tcherepnin
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Nikolay Tcherepnin

Russian composer
Also known as: Nicholas Cherepnin, Nicholas Tcherepnin, Nicolas Cherepnin, Nicolas Tcherepnin, Nikolay Cherepnin, Nikolay Nikolayevich Tcherepnin(Show More)
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Nikolay Tcherepnin (born May 3 [May 15, New Style], 1873, St. Petersburg, Russia—died June 26, 1945, Issy-les-Moulineaux, near Paris, France) was a prominent Russian composer of ballets, songs, and piano music in the nationalist style of Russian music.

Tcherepnin studied law and then entered the St. Petersburg Conservatory, where he studied under Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov. He was conductor of the Belayev symphony concerts and of the Imperial Opera. From 1908 to 1914 he conducted Serge Diaghilev’s opera and ballet productions in western Europe, and from 1918 to 1921 he was director of the Tiflis (Tbilisi) Conservatory. He then settled in Paris, where he directed a Russian-staffed conservatory. His works include ballets (Le Pavillon d’Armide, Narcisse et Echo, and The Masque of the Red Death), symphonic poems, piano pieces, and songs.

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