Alexandre Yakovlevich Mogilevsky (Russian: Александр Яковлевич Могилевский; 1885 – 1953) was a classical concert violinist and director of the Kremlin Band for Tsar Nicholas II. Born in Odessa in 1885, Mogilevsky moved to Moscow in 1898 to study music at the prestigious Moscow Conservatory of Music (now Moscow P. I. Tchaikovsky Conservatory) where he graduated first in his class.
Mogilevsky was a student, colleague, and close friend of Alexander Scriabin, with whom he traveled in 1910 on a tour arranged by the conductor Serge Koussevitzky.[1]
In 1929,[2] Mogilevsky met and married the Duchess Nadedja Nicolaïevna de Leuchtenberg, who accompanied him on piano as the two started what was to be a world tour. The tour began in the Far East, with concerts in Singapore, the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), and Japan.
One of Mogilevsky's more famous students was Shinichi Suzuki (whom he taught in Tokyo, ca. 1931), the inventor of the international Suzuki method of music education.