Stepan Vasil'evich Smolensky (Russian: Сте́пан Васи́льевич Смоле́нский, 1848 – 1909) was a choir director and scholar of ancient Russian chant. Smolensky was a graduate of the Faculties of Jurisprudence and Philology of

Kazan University Kazan (Volga region) Federal University (russian: Казанский (Приволжский) федеральный университет, tt-Cyrl, Казан (Идел буе) федераль университеты) is a public research uni ...

; during his studies, he had also taken private lessons on violin and piano.Dunlop (2000), p. 47 From the early 1870s he made a study of ancient church chant, publishing several books on

znamenny chant Znamenny Chant (russian: знаменное пение, знаменный распев) is a singing tradition used by some in the Russian Eastern Orthodox Church. Znamenny Chant is a unison, melismatic liturgical singing that has its own specif ...

and a catalogue of the musical manuscripts held in the library of the

Solovetsky Monastery The Solovetsky Monastery ( rus, Солове́цкий монасты́рь, p=səlɐˈvʲɛtskʲɪj mənɐˈstɨrʲ) is a fortified monastery located on the Solovetsky Islands in the White Sea in northern Russia. It was one of the largest Chris ...

. In 1889 he settled in Moscow, becoming professor of history and theory of church music at the Conservatory after the death of Dmitri Razumovsky. Simultaneously he became director of the Synod choir and the Moscow Synodal School, succeeding Vasily Sergeevich Orlov: his success in these posts resulted in his being appointed director of the Saint Petersburg Court Capella on 6/19 May 1901, a post he held until 1903.Zvereva (2003), p. 320

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* Dunlop, Carolyn C (2000). ''The Russian Court Chapel Choir 1796-1917''. Harwood Academic Publishers. *Morosan, Vladimir (1994). ''Choral Performance in Pre-Revolutionary Russia''. Musica Russica. *Zvereva, Svetlana (2003). ''Alexander Kastalsky: His Life and Music''. Ashgate. {{DEFAULTSORT:Smolensky, Stepan 1849 births 1909 deaths Russian choral conductors Russian male conductors (music) Russian musicologists Burials at Arskoe Cemetery 19th-century musicologists