Steinberg, Maximilian Ossejevich
STEINBERG, MAXIMILIAN OSSEJEVICH
STEINBERG, MAXIMILIAN OSSEJEVICH (1883–1946), composer and teacher. Born in Vilna, Steinberg graduated from St. Petersburg University (1907, natural sciences faculty) and St. Petersburg Conservatory (1908, composition). Being the student and son-in-law of Rimsky-Korsakov, Steinberg followed his tradition and edited many of his scores and books (including Foundations of Orchestration (2 vols., 1913). His career developed from teaching composition and orchestration at the St. Petersburg Conservatory from 1908 until the end of his life. There he was dean of the faculty from 1917 to 1931 and vice rector from 1934 to 1939. Steinberg's compositions were influenced by his master, and by his interest in Asiatic music. He wrote five symphonies and other orchestral works, ballets, and chamber and piano music. Many prominent Soviet composers were Steinberg's pupils, including Dmitri Shostakovich, Vladimir Shcherbachev, and Yuri Shaporin.
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A. Rimsky-Korsakov: Maximilian Shteinberg (1928); M. Gnesin, "Maximilian Shteinberg," in: Sovetskaya muzyka, 12 (1946), 29–36; V. Bogdanov-Berezovsky, Maximilian Shteinberg (1947); L. Nikol'skaya, "Simfonicheskoe tvorchestvo M.O. Shteinberga" and O. Dansker, "Shostakovich v dnevnikakh M.O. Shteinberga," in: L. Kovnatskaya (ed.), Shostakovich: mezhdu mgnoveniem i vechnostiu (2000), 83–148
[Marina Rizarev (2nd ed.)]