Pyotr Borisovich Ryazanov

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Pyotr Borisovich Ryazanov (Russian: Пётр Борисович Рязанов, 21 October 1899 [O.S. 9 October] – October 11, 1942) was a Russian composer, teacher, and musicologist.

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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 Nikolayev.

He started teaching at the Conservatory in 1925, where he taught among others Georgy Sviridov, Andria Balanchivadze, Nikita Bogoslovsky, Alexi Matchavariani, Anatoly Novikov, Vasily Pavlovich Solovyov-Sedoy, Orest Yevlakhov, Boris Sergeyevich Mayzel', and Ivan Dzerzhinsky.

He was particularly interested in folk music.

He was evacuated from Leningrad to Tashkent during the blockade.

He died in Tbilisi from typhoid fever.

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  • Material from Grove Biography

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