Nikolai Zhilyayev (musicologist)

Nikolay Sergeyevich Zhilyayev (18 November (N.S.) 1881 – 20 January 1938), was a Russian musicologist, and the teacher of several 20th century Russian composers.

He was a pupil of Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov and Sergei Taneyev at the Moscow Conservatory in around 1904. He went on to teach there himself. His pupils included the composers Yevgeny Golubev, Aram Khachaturian, Alexei Vladimirovich Stanchinsky, Anatoly Nikolayevich Alexandrov and Samuil Evgenyevich Feinberg.

He was a member of the Russian Academy of Art-Sciences and of the State Institute of Musical Science. He wrote many essays.

References

• Mikhail Mishchenko: 'Zhilyayev, Nikolay Sergeyevich', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 2 June 2007), <http://www.grovemusic.com>
• A. Eaglefield-Hull (ed), A Dictionary of Modern Music and Musicians (Dent, London 1924)

External links

• FIENBERG In Sound and Thought ARBITER 146 (AtOr): Classical CD Reviews- June 2006 MusicWeb-International at www.musicweb-international.com.

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Name	Zhilyayev, Nikolay
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Short description	Russian musicologist
Date of birth	1881
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Date of death	1938
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