Georgi Eduardovich Conus, french: Georges Conus (russian: Гео́ргий Эдуа́рдович Коню́с, ''Georgy Eduardovich Konyus''; ,
Moscow
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29 August 1933, Moscow) was a
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music theorist
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composer
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of French descent.
He was the eldest of the three
Conus
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brothers, of whom the others were
Julius
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and
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He is buried in
Novodevichy Cemetery
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, Moscow.
He had a marked influence upon such students as
Alexander Scriabin
Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin (; russian: Александр Николаевич Скрябин ; – ) was a Russian composer and virtuoso pianist. Before 1903, Scriabin was greatly influenced by the music of Frédéric Chopin and composed ...
and
Reinhold Glière
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. For a time, much was expected of Georgi as a composer.
Tchaikovsky
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thought so highly of his promise that he obtained for him the Tsar's annual stipend of 1200 rubles awarded to deserving musicians. Georgi did indeed compose songs, a ballet, a cantata, two symphonic poems, and a variety of other instrumental works. None of these have entered the international repertoire, and Georgi ultimately became more and more immersed in musical academics, formulating an abstruse system he called "metro-techtonic analysis" for the scientific measurement of symmetry in musical forms.
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1862 births
1933 deaths
19th-century musicians from the Russian Empire
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19th-century classical composers
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Russian Romantic composers
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Russian people of French descent
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