Pyotr Ryazanov
Illustration — Pyotr Ryazanov. Late 1930s Pyotr Borisovich Ryazanov (– 11 October 1942) was a Russian composer, teacher, and musicologist.
Also recorded as Pyotr Borisovich Ryazanov
Pyotr Ryazanov

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- Born
- 1899 · Narva.
- Died
- 1942 · Tbilisi.
- Nationality
- Soviet Union · Russian Empire
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- composer · musicologist · teacher · pedagogue
- Education
- Saint Petersburg Conservatory
- Languages
- Russian
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Born in Narva into a musical family, he entered the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, where he studied composition with Nikolay Sokolov and Aleksandr Zhitomirsky, orchestration with Maximilian Steinberg and fugue with Leonid Vladimirovich Nikolayev. Ryazanov started teaching at the Conservatory in 1925. He taught, among others, Georgy Sviridov, Andria Balanchivadze, Nikita Bogoslovsky, Aleksandre Machavariani, Anatoly Novikov, Tamara Antonovna Shaverzashvili, Dagmara Slianova-Mizandari, Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi, Orest Yevlakhov, Boris Mayzel, and Ivan Dzerzhinsky. He was particularly interested in folk music. Ryazanov was evacuated from Leningrad to Tashkent during the blockade. He died in Tbilisi from typhoid fever.
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1899
Pyotr Ryazanov born at Narva.
1942
Pyotr Ryazanov died at Tbilisi.
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Pyotr Ryazanov is recorded as composer, musicologist, teacher and pedagogue.
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