Mikhail Fabianovich Gnesin

Mikhail Gnesin or Gnessin (2 February {O.S. 21 January} 1883, Roston-on-Don, Russian Empire — 5 May 1957, Moscow, USSR), was a Russian-Jewish composer, musicologist, and music pedagogue, one of the founders of the Society for Jewish Folk Music. He studied at the St. Petersburg Conservatory with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Alexander Glazunov, and Anatoly Liadov. Mikhail's elder sisters [url=https://discogs.com/artist/6243873]Elena[/url] (1874—1967), Mariya Gnesina (1874/76—1918), and Evgeniya Savina-Gnesina (1871—1940) established the renowned [url=https://discogs.com/label/1654959]Gnessin State Musical College[/url] in 1895. Gnessin's works The Maccabeans and The Youth of Abraham earned him the "Jewish Glinka" nickname. Some of his prominent students include Aram Khatchaturian, Niyazi, Evgeni Svetlanov, [url=https://discogs.com/artist/766034]Tikhon Khrennikov[/url], [url=https://discogs.com/artist/1500208]Alexander Varlamov[/url], [url=https://discogs.com/artist/3123563]Vadim Salmanov[/url], [url=https://discogs.com/artist/2640529]Sergei Axyuk[/url], [url=https://discogs.com/artist/1880567]Samuil Senderei[/url], and [url=https://discogs.com/artist/1278128]Pavel Aedonitsky[/url].