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    Vasily Ilyich Safonov (Russian: Василий Ильич Сафонов; 25 January [O.S. 6 February] 1852 – 27 February 1918), also known as Wassily Safonoff, was a Russian...
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  • Vsevolod Dmitrievich Safonov (Russian: Все́волод Дми́триевич Сафо́нов; 9 April 1926 – 6 July 1992) was a Soviet actor of theatre and cinema. He was awarded...
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  • Ukrainian football player Vasily Ilyich Safonov (1852–1918), Russian pianist, teacher, conductor and composer Yevgeni Safonov (disambiguation), several...
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    performance in Moscow was on 16 December [O.S. 4 December], conducted by Vasily Safonov. It was the last of Tchaikovsky's compositions premiered in his lifetime;...
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  • players and conductors including Halford, Wood, Ronald, George Henschel, Vasily Safonov, Thomas Beecham and Fritz Cassirer. The orchestra also gave popular...
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  • (1872–1915) studied with teachers including Anton Arensky, Georgi Conus, Vasily Safonov, Alexander Siloti, Sergei Taneyev, and Nikolai Zverev. Alfred La Liberté [pupils]...
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  • (1848–1919) Mikhail Ivanov (1849–1927) Alexander Taneyev (1850–1918) Vasily Safonov (1852–1918) Mykola Arkas (1853–1909) Nikolai Shcherbachov (1853–1922)...
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    music organizations, including the New York Philharmonic Society (under Vasily Safonov and Gustav Mahler), the New York Symphony Orchestra, the Metropolitan...
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    sixth leader of the Soviet Union Sergey Shakhray - russian politician Vasily Safonov - russian pianist, teacher, conductor and composer Nikolay Samokish...
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    коварной? Prativnyy *** da kak vy smyeyetye nazyvat' menya kovarnoy? Vasily Safonov: (sings) Pyotr Tchaikovsky: This trill could be better. Эта трель могла...
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    conductors such as Édouard Colonne, Arthur Nikisch, Willem Mengelberg, Vasily Safonov, Gustav Mahler and Alexander Siloti. In 1911 she decided to try the...
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    (1831–1892) Tolibjon Sadikov (1907–1957), born in present-day Uzbekistan Vasily Safonov (1852–1918) Niescier Sakałoŭski (1902–1950), born in present-day Belarus...
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    Russian poet. Born Anna Safonova, she was the daughter of composer Vasily Ilyich Safonov. At the age of 19 she married then Captain (and future Admiral)...
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    teacher. Despite little faith from Siloti and Conservatory director Vasily Safonov as he had just three weeks' preparation, Rachmaninoff received assistance...
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    Stanisław Moniuszko. She studied piano at the Moscow Conservatory under Vasily Safonov. She also had lessons from Ferruccio Busoni and Sergei Taneev. She graduated...
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    Herbert Gustav Hinrichs Rafael Joseffy Bruno Klein Leopold Lichtenberg Vasily Safonov Leo Schulz Max Spicker Jeannette Thurber Camilla Urso Students who attended...
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    of Moscow. He studied at the Imperial Conservatory in Moscow under Vasily Safonov. He made his public debut at the age of 14 with Ludwig van Beethoven's...
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    at the Moscow Conservatory under Anton Arensky, Sergei Taneyev, and Vasily Safonov. He became a noted pianist despite his small hands, which could barely...
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    play his concerto with the Vienna Philharmonic under the direction of Vasily Safonov in December. Although the engagement guaranteed him a hefty fee, he...
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  • Lloyd Morgan, English zoologist and psychologist (d. 1936) 1852 – Vasily Safonov, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1918) 1861 – Nikolay Zelinsky...
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  • to the Conservatory, where she also studied with Lhévinne's teacher, Vasily Safonov. At her graduation in 1898, she won the gold medal in piano as had Josef...
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    Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Alexander Taneyev, Anton Arensky, Anton Rubinstein, Vasily Safonov, Alexander Siloti, and other musicians, actors, lawyers, and professors...
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    call me crafty? Пративный *** да как вы смеете называть меня коварной? Vasily Safonov: (sings) Pyotr Tchaikovsky: This trill could be better. Эта трель могла...
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    studied piano at the Moscow Conservatory with Galli, Pavel Pabst and Vasily Safonov. Goedicke won the Anton Rubinstein Competition in 1900. Despite his...
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  • March 1892 at the Moscow Conservatory, with the composer as soloist and Vasily Safonov conducting. This may have been the only time the composer played the...
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    Rubinstein prize, having studied under Pavel Pabst, Wassily Sapellnikoff, Vasily Safonov and Sergei Taneyev among others. Despite his conservative musical tastes...
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    (Treatise on Conducting, ISBN 3-7957-2780-4) is a standard textbook. Like Vasily Safonov and (in later life) Leopold Stokowski, Scherchen commonly avoided the...
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky's nephews, the children of his brother Mikhail and Vasily Safonov. Until 2010 almost nobody knew what he had composed. Zaremba was born...
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  • his American debut with the Russian Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Vasily Safonov in New York. February 6 – Karol Szymanowski's Concert Overture in E...
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    followed where her appearances included working with the conductors Vasily Safonov and Ossip Gabrilowitsch. With violinist Bronisław Huberman and cellist...
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