Pyotr Borisovich Ryazanov (russian: Пётр Борисович Рязанов; – 11 October 1942) was a Russian

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Defi ...

, teacher, and musicologist.

Biography

Born in Narva into a musical family, he entered the

Saint Petersburg Conservatory The N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg State Conservatory (russian: Санкт-Петербургская государственная консерватория имени Н. А. Римского-Корсакова) (formerly known as th ...

, where he studied composition with Nikolay Sokolov and Aleksandr Zhitomirsky,

orchestration Orchestration is the study or practice of writing music for an orchestra (or, more loosely, for any musical ensemble, such as a concert band) or of adapting music composed for another medium for an orchestra. Also called "instrumentation", orc ...

with Maximilian Steinberg and

fugue In music, a fugue () is a contrapuntal compositional technique in two or more voices, built on a subject (a musical theme) that is introduced at the beginning in imitation (repetition at different pitches) and which recurs frequently in the c ...

with

Leonid Vladimirovich Nikolayev Leonid Vladimirovich Nikolayev (russian: Леони́д Влади́мирович Никола́ев, August 13, 1878October 11, 1942) was a Russian/Soviet pianist, composer and pedagogue. Biography Nikolayev was born in Kiev in 1878. He studi ...

. Ryazanov started teaching at the Conservatory in 1925. He taught, among others, Georgy Sviridov, Andria Balanchivadze, Nikita Bogoslovsky,

Aleksandre Machavariani Aleksandre "Aleksi" Machavariani ( ka, ალექსი მაჭავარიანი) (23 September 1913 – 30 December 1995) was a Georgian composer and conductor. Aleksi Machavariani was born in Gori, Georgia. He graduated from the T ...

Anatoly Novikov Anatoli Grigoriévitch Novikov (russian: Анато́лий Григо́рьевич Но́виков; – 24 September 1984) was a Soviet composer, a choral conductor and a political activist. Background Novikov was awarded two Stalin Prizes, ...

, Tamara Antonovna Shaverzashvili, Dagmara Slianova-Mizandari, Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi,

Orest Yevlakhov Orest is a masculine given name which may refer to: * Orest Banach (born 1948), German-American former soccer goalkeeper * Orest Budyuk (born 1995), Ukrainian footballer * Orest Grechka (born 1975), Ukrainian-American former soccer player * Orest ...

Boris Mayzel Boris Sergeyevich Mayzel' (russian: Борис Серге́евич Майзель, – 9 July 1986) was a Soviet composer. He was born in Saint Petersburg to a family of physicist Sergey Mayzel. He studied with Maximilian Steinberg and Pyo ...

, and Ivan Dzerzhinsky. He was particularly interested in folk music. Ryazanov was evacuated from Leningrad to Tashkent during the blockade. He died in Tbilisi from typhoid fever.

References

*Material from Grove Biography

External links

Grove entry on RyazanovBiography
(Russian) {{DEFAULTSORT:Ryazanov, Pyotr 1899 births 1942 deaths Russian composers Russian male composers People from Narva Deaths from typhoid fever 20th-century composers 20th-century Russian male musicians