Leonid Sabaneyev

Leonid Leonidovich Sabaneyev (also spelled Sabaneyeff or Sabaneev; ; 3 May 1968) was a Russian musicologist, music critic, composer and scientist. He was the son of Leonid Pavlovich Sabaneyev, a famous hunting expert, and his brother Boris was also a musician.

Biography Leonid Sabaneyev was born in Moscow in 1881 and his musical studies were under Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Sergei Taneyev, Nikolai Zverev and Paul de Schlözer at the Moscow Conservatory. piano pieces (including a Piano Sonata, Op. 15), and hoped to create a "Laboratory of the Exact Science of Music".

Sabaneyev left Russia in 1926, after publishing Scriabin (1916, 2/1923), History of Russian Music (1924), The General History of Music (1925), and Music After October (on post-revolution music in Russia). History of Russian Music was translated into German (1926) and received very positive reviews from critics such as Maurice Cauchie. In his later years he lived in Paris, London, the United States, and Nice, where he is buried. His musicological works from this period include Modern Russian Composers (1927), a monograph on Taneyev (1930), and Music for the Films (1935). His students in Paris included the Swedish composers Dag Wirén and Gösta Nystroem.

His later musical works included a ballet, a symphonic poem, and the oratorio The Revelation of St John (1940).

He died in Cap d'Antibes, France, on 3 May 1968.

List of main compositions Two trios for violin, cello and piano (1907 and 1924) Sonata for violin and piano Sonata "à la mémoire de Scriabine" (1916–1917) Chaconne for organ and orchestra (op. 21, not later 1924) Ballet Aviatrice (1928) Tragic epopeia for orchestra (1928) Flots d'azur (symphonic poem) (1936) Passacaglia (for orchestra) (1935) Suite for two pianos (1938) Apocalypse (for soloists, choir, organ and orchestra) (1940) Many romances for voice and piano Many small pieces for piano (including Prelude Op. 10 No. 5 popularised in concerts by Marc-André Hamelin)