Slonimsky, Nicolas, 1894-1995
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Slonimsky, Nicolas, 1894-1995
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Slonimsky, Nicolas, 1894-1995
Slonimsky, Nicolas
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Slonimsky, Nicolas, 1894-
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Slonimskij Mihail
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Slonimskij, Nikolaj 1894-1995
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Slonimskij, Nikolaj 1894-1995
Слонимский, Николай 1894-1995
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Слонимский, Николай 1894-1995
Slonimsky, Nicholas, 1894-1995
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Slonimsky, Kolyenka, 1894-1995
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Slonimsky, Kolyenka, 1894-1995
Sloninsky, Nicolas 1894-1995
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Sloninsky, Nicolas 1894-1995
Słonimski, Nicolas.
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Slonimsky, Nikolai, 1894-1995
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スロニムスキー, ニコラス
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Composed 1933. First performance Hollywood Bowl, 13 July 1933, the composer conducting.--Cf. Fleisher Collection.
Movements 1-6 and 8 originally composed 1928 in Studies in Black and White for piano. Transcribed and Valse added, 1941. First performance Buenos Aires, 31 October 1941, Grupo Renovación concert, the composer conducting.--Cf. Fleisher Collection.
Commissioned by Arthur Cohn. Composed 1942.--Cf. Fleisher Collection.
Originally composed 1928 as part of Studies in Black and White for piano. Transcribed 1933. First performance Hollywood Bowl, 23 July 1933, the composer conducting.--Cf. Fleisher Collection.
Slonimsky was a conductor, composer, writer, and editor of a number of reference books on music.
Russian-born American musicologist.
Nicholas Slonimsky, lexicographer, composer, and writer on music, was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Apr. 27, 1894. He studied the piano with his aunt, Isabelle Vengerova, a well-known piano pedagogue, at the St. Petersburg Conservatory and composition with Glière. He taught at the Eastman School of Music (1923¡1925). He was Serge Koussevitzky's secretary for two years and conducted the Boston Chamber Orchestra (1927¡1934) and the Harvard University Orchestra (1927¡1930). In the 1930s and early 1940s he became known for conducting first performances of Ives, Varèse, Riegger, Cowell, Chàvez, and other composers of the Americas. He was a lecturer at Colorado College (1940, 1947¡1949), the Peabody Conservatory (1956¡1957), and the University of California at Los Angeles (1964¡1967). Slonimsky was author or editor of major music reference works, including Music Since 1900, Music of Latin America, The international cyclopedia of music and musicians, 4th ed., Thesaurus of scales and melodic patterns, Lexicon of musical invective, and many editions of Baker's biographical dictionary. He died on Dec. 25, 1995, in Los Angeles.
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