Ilyinsky, Alexander Alexandrovich

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Ilyinsky, Alexander Alexandrovich

Ilyinsky, Alexander Alexandrovich, Russian composer; b. Tsarskoye Selo, Jan. 24, 1859; d. Moscow, Feb. 23, 1920. He graduated from the St. Petersburg Cons. (1885), and also studied in Berlin with Kullak (piano) and Bargiel (composition). Upon returning to Moscow, he was a teacher at the Phil. Inst. (1885–1905). He wrote an opera, The Fountain of Bakhchisaray (1911), 3 valses brillantes for Piano, andseveral orch. works.

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