Vladimir Shcherbachov

While there he also worked as a pianist for Sergey Diaghilev and taught theory. He served in World War I and then worked in Soviet government music positions. In 1918-1923 he worked as a lecturer and ran the musical department of the Narkompros. He later became a professor at the Leningrad Conservatory (1923-1931 and 1944-1948) and the Tbilisi Conservatory. He counted Boris Arapov, Vasily Velikanov, Evgeny Mravinsky, Valery Zhelobinsky, Gavriil Popov, Valerian Bogdanov-Berezovsky, Pyotr Ryazanov, and Mikhail Chulaki among his pupils, as well as various others.

Vladimir Shcherbachov studied at Saint Petersburg Conservatory. Vano Muradeli is recorded as having studied under Vladimir Shcherbachov. The recorded working language is Russian. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are opera. Employment is recorded with Saint Petersburg Conservatory and Tbilisi State Conservatoire. Distinctions recorded are Order of the Red Banner of Labour.

• Anna Kolossova, opera (1939, unfinished); • Tabachny Kapitan, operetta (1943); • Five symphonies: • No. 1 (1914); • No. 2 ("Blokovskaya” or "Blok", with soloists and chorus, 1925); • No. 3 (Symphony-Suite, 1931); • No. 4 ("Izhorskaya", with soloists and chorus, 1935); • No. 5 ("Russkaya", 1948, 2nd version in 1950); • Nonet for 7 instruments, voice and dancer (1919); • Suite for string quartet (1939) and other chamber music; • Two piano sonatas and other piano works; • Various Romances; • Film music: • The Thunderstorm (after Aleksandr Ostrovsky, 1934); • Peter I (1937–1939); • Polkovodets Suvorov (1941); • Two Suites: • The Thunderstorm; • Peter I.