Alexander Egorovich Varlamov

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Alexander Egorovich Varlamov (or Aleksandr Yegorovich Varlamov; Russian: Александр Егорович Варламов; born Moscow, November 27, 1801 - died St. Petersburg, October 28, 1848) was a Russian composer.

Varlamov was a choirboy at the court in St. Petersburg from 1811, and studied under its director, Dmytro Bortniansky. He left the court in 1818 and served as director of the Russian ambassador's chapel choir in The Hague from 1819 to 1823. Returning to St. Petersburg later that year, he taught singing intermittently for the remainder of his life, and also was the kapellmeister for the Moscow imperial theater from 1832 to 1845.

Among Varlamov's compositions are two ballets, incidental music, piano pieces, and songs. Between 1861 and 1864 a complete works edition of his music was published in St. Petersburg under the title Polnoye sobraniye solichineniy.

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• Don Randel, The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music. Harvard, 1996, p. 940.