Arseny Koreshchenko

Arseny Nikolayevich Koreshchenko (Russian: Арсений Николаевич Корещенко, 18 December 1870 6 January 1921) was a Russian pianist and composer of classical music, including operas and ballets.

Biography

Koreshchenko was born in Moscow in 1870. He entered the Moscow Conservatory, graduating in 1891. He was only the second person ever to be awarded the Conservatory's Great Gold Medal; the first was one of his teachers, Sergei Taneyev, and the third was Sergei Rachmaninoff.[1] He also studied theory under Anton Arensky.

He stayed with his alma mater as a professor of harmony and also taught counterpoint at the Moscow Synodal School.

He died in Kharkov in 1921.

List of works

Opera

Ballet

Incidental Music

Choral works

Orchestral

Concertante

Chamber

Piano

Songs

Sources

References

External links

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