Boleslav Yavorsky

Boleslav Yavorsky studied at R. Glier Kyiv Municipal Academy of Music and Moscow Conservatory. Vernon Duke and Lev Brahinskyi are recorded as having studied under Boleslav Yavorsky. The recorded working language is Russian. Employment is recorded with Ukrainian National Academy of Music.

• Name — Boleslav Yavorsky • Born — 22 June 1877 • Birthplace — Kharkiv, Russian Empire • Died — 26 November 1942 • Place of death — Saratov, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union • Occupation — Musicologist, music teacher, administrator, pianist

Yavorsky was born in Kharkiv. He studied at the Moscow Conservatory under Sergei Taneyev and Karl Kipp. He taught at the Kiev Conservatory until 1919, the First Music Tekhnikum in Moscow, which he founded, and the Moscow Conservatory. He chaired the music section of the People's Commissariat for Education (Narkompros) from 1922 to 1930. Yavorsky was a friend, mentor and confidant of the composer Dmitri Shostakovich and played an important role in the latter's development. He often used his influence to further Shostakovich's career. His students included Rostislav Berberov, Vladimir Aleksandrovich Dukelsky (also known as Vernon Duke), Alexei Fedorovich Kozlovsky, Alexander Abramovich Krein, Sergei Protopopov, Mykola Leontovych, Tatiana Grigorievna Shaborkina (director of the Scriabin Museum from 1941 until 1984), Maria Wiłkomirska, and Isaak Rabinovich, whose son Boleslav Rabinovich was named after Isaak's beloved teacher. Yavorsky died in Saratov.