You would expect a composer who was taught by Tchaikovsky (and succeeded him as a composition teacher in the Moscow Conservatory), and who himself taught Rachmaninov and Scriabin, would be a ...

There are two kinds of people: those who have never heard of Sergey Taneyev and those who can’t get enough of him. Taneyev, as Tchaikovsky’s pupil and Scriabin’s teacher, was part of the great lineage ...

Taneyev and Glazunov were the two opposite extremes of their generation in Russia. Taneyev was the stern artistic conscience of the Western-facing Moscow school, immersing himself in counterpoint and ...

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Several years ago, a friend from Russia sent me a little blue book entitled S Taneyev: Diaries, volume three, along with some photocopied extracts from an earlier volume. I had known the name Sergei ...

None of the really big guns of 19th-century Russian music was included in the last concert in Steven Isserlis's Taneyev festival, but the programme was all the more illuminating for that. Born in 1856 ...