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Mikhail Vasilyevich Matyushin: Quick Facts

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Born 1861 • Nizhny Novgorod • Russia
Died October 14, 1934 (aged 73) • St. Petersburg • Russia
Founder Union of Youth • Zorved
Notable Works “Victory over the Sun”
Movement / Style avant-garde • Union of Youth • Zorved
Notable Family Members spouse Yelena Genrikhovna Guro

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Two Trees, oil on canvas by Mikhail Vasilyevich Matyushin, 1912; in the Russian State Museum, St. Petersburg.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Russian composer
Portrait of composer Sergey Prokofiev, circa 1938, wearing round glasses, a suit, and a tie, looking slightly to the side.
Sergey Prokofiev
Russian composer
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Russian composer
Dmitry Shostakovich sits at a desk by a window, looking at sheet music, wearing glasses and a suit, with papers and books arranged on the desk.
Dmitri Shostakovich
Russian composer
Modest Mussorgsky, portrait by Ilya Repin, 1881; in the Gosudarstvennaya Tretyakovskaya Galereya, Moscow.
Modest Mussorgsky
Russian composer
Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, detail of a portrait by V.A. Serov; in the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov
Russian composer
Sergey Rachmaninoff in profile, seated at a piano, playing with both hands on the keys.
Sergey Rachmaninoff
Russian musician
Mikhail Glinka.
Mikhail Glinka
Russian composer
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Aleksandr Borodin
Russian composer and scientist
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Anton Rubinstein
Russian composer and musician
César Cui, drawing by I. Repin, 1900.
César Cui
Russian composer
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Dmitry Kabalevsky
Russian composer
Sergey Taneyev.
Sergey Taneyev
Russian composer and pianist
Aleksandr Dargomyzhsky, oil painting by K.Y. Makovsky.
Aleksandr Dargomyzhsky
Russian composer
Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov.
Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov
Russian composer
Anton Arensky.
Anton Arensky
Russian composer
Nikolay Tcherepnin.
Nikolay Tcherepnin
Russian composer
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven
German composer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Austrian composer
Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe Verdi
Italian composer

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