Nikolai Tcherepnin
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Nikolai Nikolayevich Tcherepnin (May 15, 1873 [O.S. May 3] – 27 June 1945) was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. He was born in Saint Petersburg and studied under Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. He conducted for the first Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. In 1918 he took the post of director of the National Conservatory of Tbilisi. In 1921 he moved to Paris and lived there for the rest of his life.