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 A teacher, also called a schoolteacher or formally an educator, is a person who helps students to acquire knowledge, competence, or virtue, via the practice of teaching. ''Informally'' the role of teacher may be taken on by anyone (e.g. whe ...

, and

musicologist Musicology (from Greek μουσική ''mousikē'' 'music' and -λογια ''-logia'', 'domain of study') is the scholarly analysis and research-based study of music. Musicology departments traditionally belong to the humanities, although some mu ...

Biography

Born in

Narva Narva, russian: Нарва is a municipality and city in Estonia. It is located in Ida-Viru County, Ida-Viru county, at the Extreme points of Estonia, eastern extreme point of Estonia, on the west bank of the Narva (river), Narva river which ...

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 Maximilian Osseyevich Steinberg (Russian Максимилиан Осеевич Штейнберг; – 6 December 1946) was a Russian composer of classical music. Though once considered the hope of Russian music, Steinberg is far less well known ...

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 Georgy Vasilyevich Sviridov (Russian: Гео́ргий Васи́льевич Свири́дов ; 16 December 1915 – 6 January 1998) was a Soviet and Russian neoromantic composer. He is most widely known for his choral music, strongly influe ...

Andria Balanchivadze Andria Balanchivadze ( ka, ანდრია მელიტონის ძე ბალანჩივაძე, ''Andria Melit'onis dze Balanchivadze'', russian: Андре́й Мелито́нович Баланчива́дзе, Andrei Meliton ...

Nikita Bogoslovsky Nikita Vladimirovich Bogoslovsky (russian: Ники́та Влади́мирович Богосло́вский; 22 May 1913 in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire – 4 April 2004 in Moscow, Russia) was a Soviet and Russian composer. Author of more t ...

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 Tamara Antonovna Shaverzashvili ( ka, თამარ შავერზაშვილი; 14 October 1891 – 18 September 1955) was a Georgian composer, pianist, and teacher who composed many children’s songs and received an Honored Worker in ...

Dagmara Slianova-Mizandari Dagmara Levanovna Slianova-Mizandari (December 1910 - 1983) was a composer born in the Republic of Georgia. Slianova-Mizandari studied at the Tbilisi State Conservatoire. She graduated in 1933, received a diploma in composition in 1935, and taught ...

Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi Vasily Pavlovich Solovyov-Sedoi (; – 2 December 1979) was a Soviet classical composer and songwriter who was born and died in Leningrad. Solovyov-Sedoi composed the music for many songs such as "Moscow Nights" (russian: Подмосковны ...

, Orest Yevlakhov,

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 Ivan Ivanovich Dzerzhinsky (9 April 1909 – 18 January 1978) was a Soviet and Russian composer. The work for which he best known, his opera ''Quiet Flows the Don'' (''Tikhiy Don''), was more successful for its political potential than for any mu ...

. He was particularly interested in

folk music Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival. Some types of folk music may be called world music. Traditional folk music has b ...

. Ryazanov was evacuated from

Leningrad Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

Tashkent Tashkent (, uz, Toshkent, Тошкент/, ) (from russian: Ташкент), or Toshkent (; ), also historically known as Chach is the capital and largest city of Uzbekistan. It is the most populous city in Central Asia, with a population of ...

during the

blockade A blockade is the act of actively preventing a country or region from receiving or sending out food, supplies, weapons, or communications, and sometimes people, by military force. A blockade differs from an embargo or sanction, which are le ...

. He died in

Tbilisi Tbilisi ( ; ka, თბილისი ), in some languages still known by its pre-1936 name Tiflis ( ), is the Capital city, capital and the List of cities and towns in Georgia (country), largest city of Georgia (country), Georgia, lying on the ...

from

typhoid fever Typhoid fever, also known as typhoid, is a disease caused by '' Salmonella'' serotype Typhi bacteria. Symptoms vary from mild to severe, and usually begin six to 30 days after exposure. Often there is a gradual onset of a high fever over several ...

References

*Material from Grove Biography

External links

Grove entry on RyazanovBiography
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