Alexander Kasyanov

Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Kasyanov (13 February 1982) was a Soviet and Russian composer, conductor, pianist and professor. He studied privately in his youth with Mily Balakirev and Alexander Glazunov before pursuing studies at the Petrograd Conservatory from which he graduated. At that conservatory he studied under Nikolay Sokolov (music composition) and Sergei Lyapunov (piano).

Works Iola «Иола» (1923), Stepan Razin, «Степан Разин» (1939) on the Cossack Stepan Razin revised 1953, 3rd revision 1977 given at the Bolshoi Partizantka «Партизанка» (1941) Foma Gordeyev «Фома Гордеев» (1946) revised 1966 Kromlyovsky Theatre In the Far North «На дальнем Севере» (1947), Yermak «Ермак» (1957) on the Cossack Yermak Timofeyevich