About
Influential Russian musician and teacher who had many famous pupils. He introduced the works of his contemporaries to the public.
Before Fame
He enrolled at the St. Petersburg Conservatory where he was a student of composition with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and learned piano with Fedor Stein.
Trivia
He was a conductor at the Mariinsky Theatre, where he gave the Russian premiere of the opera "Tristan und Isolde" by Richard Wagner.
Family Life
He was pianist Heinrich Neuhaus's uncle and composer and pianist Karol Szymanowski's second uncle.
Associated With
He taught Vladimir Horowitz in his master classes.
