Tcherepnin
Americannoun
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Alexander Aleksandr Nikolaevich, 1899–1977, Russian pianist and composer, in the U.S.
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his father Nicholas Nikolai Nickolaevich, 1873–1945, Russian composer and conductor.
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In New York on May 24, Ms. Schroeder will play the piece again, this time with Stefan Tcherepnin, a former student of Amacher’s.
From New York Times ● May 19, 2017
Images of interrupted and unstable architecture recur in “Greater New York”: in Lutz Bacher’s jumble of castlelike blocks, and in a funky, sound-generating lean-to by Sergei Tcherepnin.
From New York Times ● Oct. 15, 2015
Among the most influential were Boris Zakharoff and Alexander Tcherepnin.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2015
Tcherepnin wrote the first piano primer based on the pentatonic scale and encouraged Chinese composers to create music that sounded Chinese—He Luting's "Buffalo Boy's Flute" was composed for a contest organized by Tcherepnin.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2015
The leading figures in this group were Rimsky-Korsakov and Glazounov, who were joined by Liadov and, later on, Tcherepnin, the brothers Blumenfeld, Sokolov, and other pupils of Rimsky-Korsakov.
From An Autobiography by Igor Stravinsky
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