Сергей Иванович Танеев

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Symphony No. 4 In C Minor, Op. 12: II. Adagio 00:00 Tools
Prelude & Fugue in G-Sharp Major, Op. 29: Fugue 00:00 Tools
Quintet for Two Violins, Two Violas and Cello in C Major, Op.16: II. Adagio espressivo 00:00 Tools
Prelude & Fugue in G-sharp major, Op.29: Fugue 00:00 Tools
Concert Suite, Op. 28: V. Tarantella. Presto 00:00 Tools
Piano Trio in D Major, Op. 22: III. Andante espressivo — 00:00 Tools
Symphony No. 4 in C minor, Op. 12: I. Allegro molto 00:00 Tools
Adagio in C Major 00:00 Tools
String Quintet No. 2 in C major, Op. 16: II. Adagio espressivo 00:00 Tools
John of Damascus, Op. 1: I. Adagio ma non troppo 00:00 Tools
John of Damascus, Op. 1: II. Andante sostenuto 00:00 Tools
Prelude & Fugue in G-Sharp Major, Op. 29: Prelude 00:00 Tools
John of Damascus, op.1 Cantata for Chorus and Orchestra after a poem from A.Tolstoj: 1. Adagio ma non troppo 00:00 Tools
John of Damascus, Op. 1: III. Fuga - Allegro 00:00 Tools
Suite De Concert, Op. 28: II. Gavotte: Allegro Moderato 00:00 Tools
John of Damascus, op.1 Cantata for Chorus and Orchestra after a poem from A.Tolstoj: 2. Andante sostenuto 00:00 Tools
Quintet for Piano, Two Violins, Viola and Cello in G Minor, Op. 30: I. Introduzione (Adagio mesto) - Allegro patetico 00:00 Tools
Piano quintet in G minor, Op. 30: I. Introduction 00:00 Tools
Piano Trio in D major, Op. 22: I. Allegro 00:00 Tools
John of Damascus, op.1 Cantata for Chorus and Orchestra after a poem from A.Tolstoj: 3. Fuga. Allegro - Moderato 00:00 Tools
Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 30: III. Largo 00:00 Tools
Suite de concert Op. 28 (2006 - Remaster): I. Praludium (Grave) 00:00 Tools
Suite De Concert, Op. 28: I. Prelude: Grave 00:00 Tools
Piano quintet in G minor, Op. 30: II. Scherzo 00:00 Tools
Suite De Concert, Op. 28: V. Tarantella: Presto 00:00 Tools
Canzona 00:00 Tools
Overture To Oresteya, Op. 6 00:00 Tools
Suite De Concert, Op. 28: IV. Variation 1: Allegro Moderato 00:00 Tools
Piano Quartet in E Major, Op. 20: I. Allegro brillante 00:00 Tools
Symphony No. 4 in C minor, Op. 12: III. Scherzo: Vivace 00:00 Tools
String Quintet No. 1 in G Major, Op. 14: I. Allegro con spirito 00:00 Tools
Prelude - in F major 00:00 Tools
Suite De Concert, Op. 28: IV. Final Variation And Coda 00:00 Tools
Suite De Concert, Op. 28: IV. Variation 3: Tempo Di Valse 00:00 Tools
Oresteia, Act I - "Agamemnon": Introduction 00:00 Tools
Suite De Concert, Op. 28: IV. Variation 6: Tempo Di Mazurka - Allegro Con Fuoco 00:00 Tools
Suite De Concert, Op. 28: IV. Variation 5: Presto Scherzando 00:00 Tools
Prelude & Fugue in G sharp minor, Op.29 00:00 Tools
Symphony No. 4 in C minor, Op. 12: IV. Finale: Allegro energico - molto maestoso 00:00 Tools
Suite De Concert, Op. 28: IV. Variation 2: Allegro Con Energico 00:00 Tools
Suite De Concert, Op. 28: IV. Variation 4: Fuga Doppia 00:00 Tools
Lullaby in F Major 00:00 Tools
Suite de Concert, Op. 28: I. Praludium 00:00 Tools
Oresteia: Overture 00:00 Tools
Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 30: 3. Largo 00:00 Tools
Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 30: 2. Scherzo. Presto - Moderato teneramente- Tempo I 00:00 Tools
Piano Trio in D Major, Op. 22: II. Allegro molto 00:00 Tools
Piano Quartet in E Major, Op. 20: II. Adagio piu tosto largo 00:00 Tools
Quintet for Piano, Two Violins, Viola and Cello in G Minor, Op. 30: II. Scherzo. Presto 00:00 Tools
Violin Sonata in A Minor: I. Allegro 00:00 Tools
Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 30: 1. Introduzione. Adagio e mesto 00:00 Tools
Quintet for Piano, Two Violins, Viola and Cello in G Minor, Op. 30: III. Largo 00:00 Tools
Symphony No. 1 in E minor: I. Allegro 00:00 Tools
Suite de concert Op. 28 (2006 - Remaster): II. Gavotte (Allegro moderato) 00:00 Tools
Quintet for Piano, Two Violins, Viola and Cello in G Minor, Op. 30: IV. Finale. Allegro vivace - Moderato maestoso 00:00 Tools
String Quintet No. 1 in G Major, Op. 14: II. Vivace con fuoco 00:00 Tools
10 Romances, Op. 17: No. 10. Ljudi spjat (All are Asleep) 00:00 Tools
String quartet No. 2 in C major, Op. 5: I. Allegro 00:00 Tools
Symphony No. 3 In D Minor: I. Allegro Con Spirito 00:00 Tools
Suite de Concert, Op. 28: III. Marchen 00:00 Tools
Concert Suite in G Minor for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 28: V. Tarantella: Presto 00:00 Tools
Violin Sonata in A Minor: II. Adagio cantabile 00:00 Tools
Symphony No. 3 In D Minor: III. Intermezzo: Andantino Grazioso 00:00 Tools
Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 30: 4. Finale. Allegro vivace - Moderato maestoso 00:00 Tools
Piano Trio in D Major, Op. 22: III. Andante espressivo 00:00 Tools
String quartet No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 4: II. Largo 00:00 Tools
Suite de concert Op. 28 (2006 - Remaster): III. Marchen (Andantino) 00:00 Tools
Suite de concert Op. 28 (2006 - Remaster): IV. Tema con variazione 00:00 Tools
Overture To Oresteya, Op. 6: The Oresteia, Op. 6: Overture 00:00 Tools
Oresteia, Act I - "Agamemnon", Scene 1: No. 2 "Слава! Слава!" 00:00 Tools
Quintet for Two Violins, Viola and Two Cellos in G Major, Op. 14: I. Allegro con spirito 00:00 Tools
Piano Quartet in E major, Op. 20: III. Finale: Allegro molto 00:00 Tools
String quartet No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 4: III. Presto 00:00 Tools
String quartet No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 4: I. Andante espressivo 00:00 Tools
Piano quintet in G minor, Op. 30: IV. Finale 00:00 Tools
String Quartet No. 1 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 4: V. Finale: Vivace e giocoso 00:00 Tools
Symphony No. 2 in B-Flat Minor (completed and edited by V. Blok): II. Andante 00:00 Tools
String trio in D major: I. Allegro 00:00 Tools
Suite de concert Op. 28 (2006 Digital Remaster): V. Tarantella (Presto) 00:00 Tools
String Quartet No. 1 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 4: IV. Intermezzo: Andantino - Largamente 00:00 Tools
10 Romances, Op. 17: No. 5. Ne veter veja s vysoty (Not the wind from on high) 00:00 Tools
Oresteia, Act I - "Agamemnon", Scene 1: No. 1 "O, боги!" 00:00 Tools
Violin Sonata in A Minor: IV. Allegro ma non troppo 00:00 Tools
String trio in E-flat major, Op. 31: I. Allegro con brio 00:00 Tools
String Quartet No. 4 in A minor, Op. 11: III. Adagio 00:00 Tools
Suite De Concert, Op. 28: I. Praeludium: Grave 00:00 Tools
Ioann Damaskin (John of Damascus), Op. 1: Idu v nevedomiy mne put' (I begin a journey into the unknown): Adagio ma non troppo 00:00 Tools
Violin Sonata in A Minor: III. Minuetto: Allegretto 00:00 Tools
Symphony No. 4 in C Minor, Op. 12: III. Scherzo - Vivace 00:00 Tools
Prelude in F major 00:00 Tools
Suite de Concert, Op. 28: II. Govotte 00:00 Tools
Suite De Concert, Op. 28: III. Fairy Tale: Andantino 00:00 Tools
Suite De Concert, Op. 28: IV. Theme: Andantino 00:00 Tools
Andante 00:00 Tools
Quintet for Two Violins, Viola and Two Cellos in G Major, Op. 14: II. Vivace con fuoco 00:00 Tools
Quintet for Two Violins, Viola and Two Cellos in G Major, Op. 14: III. Tema con variazioni 00:00 Tools
String Quartet No. 8 in C major: I. Allegro con brio 00:00 Tools
Symphony No. 2 in B-Flat Minor (completed and edited by V. Blok): I. Introduction and Allegro 00:00 Tools
Symphony No. 3 In D Minor: II. Allegro Vivace Alla Marcia 00:00 Tools
10 Romances from Ellis's Immortelles, Op. 26: No. 9. Menu'et (Menuet) 00:00 Tools
Symphony No. 3 In D Minor: IV. Allegro Con Brio 00:00 Tools
Suite de Concert, Op. 28: IV. Tema con variazione 00:00 Tools
Oresteya: Oresteya, Act III, Entr'acte: The Temple Of Apollo At Delphi 00:00 Tools
Entr'acte (The Temple of Apollo at Delphi) 00:00 Tools
Concert Suite in G Minor for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 28: I. Preludium: Grave 00:00 Tools
String quartet No. 8 in C major: II. Adagio ma non troppo 00:00 Tools
String quartet No. 6 in B-flat major, Op. 19: I. Allegro giusto 00:00 Tools
String quartet No. 8 in C major: III. Tempo di minuetto 00:00 Tools
String quartet No. 7 in E-flat major: I. Allegro 00:00 Tools
Quintet for Two Violins, Two Violas and Cello in C Major, Op.16: I. Allegro sostenuto 00:00 Tools
Piano Trio in D, Op.22: 1. Allegro 00:00 Tools
String Quintet No. 1 in G Major, Op. 14: III. Tema con variazioni: Variation 8 00:00 Tools
Piano Quintet in G Minor, Op. 30: II. Scherzo. Presto 00:00 Tools
Piano Trio in D major, Op. 22: IV. Finale: Allegro con brio 00:00 Tools
Symphony No. 1 In E Minor: IV. Allegro Molto 00:00 Tools
Suite de concert, Op. 28: IV. Theme and Variations 00:00 Tools
String Trio in D Major: II. Scherzo 00:00 Tools
String Quintet No. 1 in G Major, Op. 14: III. Tema con variazioni 00:00 Tools
10 Romances from Ellis's Immortelles, Op. 26: No. 6. Stalaktity (Stalactites) 00:00 Tools
Suite de Concert, Op. 28: V. Tarantella 00:00 Tools
4 Songs, Op. 32: No. 4. Zimniy put' (The Winter Road) 00:00 Tools
Prelude 00:00 Tools
String Quintet No. 2 in C major, Op. 16: I. Allegro sostenuto 00:00 Tools
Concert Suite in G Minor for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 28: II. Gavotte: Allegro moderato 00:00 Tools
String Quartet No. 5 in A major, Op. 13: III. Allegro Molto 00:00 Tools
String Quartet No. 9 in A Major: I. Allegro moderato 00:00 Tools
Piano Trio In D, Op.22: 2. Allegro molto - Tema con variazioni 00:00 Tools
String Quartet No. 4 in A minor, Op. 11: I. Introduzione: Adagio - Allegro 00:00 Tools
Symphony No. 1 in E minor: III. Vivace assai 00:00 Tools
Symphony No. 1 In E Minor: II. Andantino Quasi Allegretto 00:00 Tools
String Trio in D Major: IV. Finale 00:00 Tools
String quartet No. 3 in D minor, Op. 7: I. Allegro 00:00 Tools
String Quartet No. 4 in A minor, Op. 11: II. Divertimento: Allegro vivace e scherzando 00:00 Tools
Repose (Elegy) in E Major 00:00 Tools
Concert Suite for Violin and Orchestra in G Minor, Op. 28: III. Fairy Tale 00:00 Tools
12 Choruses, Op. 27: VI. Prayer 00:00 Tools
12 Choruses, Op. 27: III. A Tower in Ruins 00:00 Tools
12 Choruses, Op. 27: IV. Such a Mist! 00:00 Tools
String Quintet No. 2 in C major, Op. 16: III. Allegretto. Scherzando 00:00 Tools
10 Romances, Op. 17: No. 9. B'jotsja serdce bespokojnoje (Anxiously beats the heart) 00:00 Tools
Canzona In F Minor - Arr. For Cello And Orchestra 00:00 Tools
String Quintet No. 1 in G Major, Op. 14: III. Tema con variazioni: Variation 1 00:00 Tools
Oresteia, Act I - "Agamemnon", Scene 1: No. 3 "Поведай нам" 00:00 Tools
String Quartet No. 5 in A major, Op. 13: II. Adagio espressivo 00:00 Tools
String Quartet No. 5 in A major, Op. 13: I. Allegro con spirito 00:00 Tools
String quartet No. 7 in E-flat major: III. Scherzo 00:00 Tools
String Quartet No. 7 in E-Flat Major: IV. Finale. Allegro molto 00:00 Tools
Piano Trio in D, Op.22: 3. Andante espressivo - attacca 00:00 Tools
String Quartet No. 4 in A minor, Op. 11: IV. Finale: Introduzione: Adagio - Allegro 00:00 Tools
Piano Trio In D, Op.22: 4. Finale. Allegro con brio 00:00 Tools
Symphony No. 4 in C Minor, Op. 12: IV. Finale - Allegro energico 00:00 Tools
Suite De Concert, Op. 28: III. Marchen (Tale): Andantino 00:00 Tools
Overture in D Minor 00:00 Tools
Ioann Damaskin (John of Damascus), Op. 1: No vechnim snom poka ya splyu (But while I sleep with the eternal sleep): Andante sostenuto 00:00 Tools
Overture on a Russian Theme 00:00 Tools
12 Choruses, Op. 27: II. Evening 00:00 Tools
10 Poems, Op. 26: II. Canzona (For Cello and Piano) 00:00 Tools
Mozart: Fantasie in C Minor, K. 396 00:00 Tools
Andante and Finale, Op. 79 (arr. S. Taneyev for piano and orchestra): Allegro Maestoso 00:00 Tools
String Quartet No. 5 in A major, Op. 13: IV. Presto 00:00 Tools
String quartet No. 6 in B-flat major, Op. 19: II. Adagio serioso 00:00 Tools
String Quartet No. 9 in A Major: II. Andante 00:00 Tools
Concert Suite for Violin and Orchestra in G Minor, Op. 28: I. Prelude 00:00 Tools
String Quartet No. 3 in D minor, Op. 7: II. Theme and Variations: Andantino grazioso 00:00 Tools
12 Choruses, Op. 27: I. At the Grave 00:00 Tools
Po prochtenii psalma (At the Reading of a Psalm), Op. 36: I. …Zemlya trepeshchet (…The earth is trembling) (Chorus) 00:00 Tools
12 Choruses, Op. 27: VII. Suddenly a Music Sounded from Eternity 00:00 Tools
12 Choruses, Op. 27: V. On the Ship 00:00 Tools
Oresteya Overture 00:00 Tools
Suite de concert, Op. 28: III. Marchen (The Fairy Tale): Andantino 00:00 Tools
Oresteia, Act I - "Agamemnon", Scene 2: No. 5 March 00:00 Tools
Oresteia, Act I - "Agamemnon", Scene 1: No. 4 "Возможно ли?" 00:00 Tools
Oresteia, Act I - "Agamemnon", Scene 2: No. 7 Duet "Тому, кто победил" 00:00 Tools
Oresteia, Act I - "Agamemnon", Scene 2: No. 7 "Пусть кто-нибудь" 00:00 Tools
String Trio in E-Flat Major, Op. 31: III. Adagio espressivo 00:00 Tools
String quartet No. 7 in E-flat major: II. Adagio cantabile 00:00 Tools
String quartet No. 6 in B-flat major, Op. 19: IV. Allegro moderato 00:00 Tools
String Quartet No. 9 in A Major: IV. Allegro giocoso 00:00 Tools
Symphony No. 2 in B-Flat Minor (completed and edited by V. Blok): III. Allegro 00:00 Tools
Ioann Damaskin (John of Damascus), Op. 1: V tot den', kogda truba (On the day when a trumpet): Allegro 00:00 Tools
Andante semplice in B Minor 00:00 Tools
John of Damascus, Op. 1: I. Adagio non troppo 00:00 Tools
Symphony No. 4 in C Minor, Op. 12 00:00 Tools
John of Damascus, Op. 1: III. Fugue. Allegro 00:00 Tools
Piano Concerto in E-Flat Major: I. Allegro 00:00 Tools
Scherzo in E-Flat Minor 00:00 Tools
Venetsiya Nochyu (Venice at Night) 00:00 Tools
Scherzo in G Minor 00:00 Tools
Scherzo in D Minor 00:00 Tools
Symphony No. 4 In C Minor, Op. 12: III. Scherzo 00:00 Tools
Serenade 00:00 Tools
String Quintet No. 1 in G Major, Op. 14: III. Tema con variazioni: Tema 00:00 Tools
Oresteia, Act II - "The Libation Bearers", Scene 3: No. 20 "О, горе!" 00:00 Tools
Oresteia: Orestes and Female Servants of Clytemnestra 00:00 Tools
Oresteia, Act I - "Agamemnon", Scene 2: No. 7 "О, мой супруг!" 00:00 Tools
Oresteia, Act I - "Agamemnon", Scene 2: No. 6 "Привет тебе, отечество мое!" 00:00 Tools
Symphony No. 2 In B Flat Major: III. Allegro 00:00 Tools
Oresteia, Act I - "Agamemnon", Scene 2: No. 8 "Сойди скорее с колесницы" 00:00 Tools
V Dymke-nevidimke (In Haze) 00:00 Tools
String quartet No. 6 in B-flat major, Op. 19: III. Gigue 00:00 Tools
Violin Sonata in A Minor: III. Minuetto. Allegretto 00:00 Tools
Concert Suite for Violin and Orchestra in G Minor, Op. 28: II. Gavotte 00:00 Tools
Concert Suite for Violin and Orchestra in G Minor, Op. 28: IV. Theme and Variations 00:00 Tools
Oresteya, Act III: Entr'acte: The Temple of Apollo at Delphi 00:00 Tools
Trio for 2 Violins and Viola in D Major, Op. 21: I. Allegro giocoso e semplice 00:00 Tools
Trio for 2 Violins and Viola in D Major, Op. 21: III. Andante 00:00 Tools
Trio for 2 Violins and Viola in D Major, Op. 21: IV. Vivace 00:00 Tools
Trio for 2 Violins and Viola in D Major, Op. 21: II. Menuet 00:00 Tools
Theme and Variations in C Minor 00:00 Tools
Prelude and Fugue in G-sharp minor, Op. 29: Fugue 00:00 Tools
12 Choruses, Op. 27: VIII. Prometheus 00:00 Tools
Symphony No. 2 In B Flat Major: II. Andante 00:00 Tools
String Quintet No. 1 in G Major, Op. 14: III. Tema con variazioni: Variation 5 00:00 Tools
Scherzo in F Major 00:00 Tools
String Quintet No. 1 in G Major, Op. 14: III. Tema con variazioni: Variation 2 00:00 Tools
12 Choruses, Op. 27: X. Stars 00:00 Tools
Oresteia, Act III - "The Eumenides", Scene 2: No. 24 Entr'acte 00:00 Tools
Oresteia, Act II - "The Libation Bearers", Scene 3: No. 21 "Тебя ищу!" 00:00 Tools
Oresteya, Act III, Entr'acte: The Temple of Apollo at Delphi 00:00 Tools
String Quartet No. 2 in C Major, Op. 5: II. Scherzo. Allegro vivace 00:00 Tools
String quartet No. 2 in C major, Op. 5: IV. Finale. Allegro vigorosamente 00:00 Tools
Concert Suite for Violin and Orchestra in G Minor, Op. 28: V. Tarantella 00:00 Tools
Theme and Variations in C minor: Variation 11: Andante 00:00 Tools
Po prochtenii psalma (At the Reading of a Psalm), Op. 36: II. Izrail'! Ti mne stroish' khramy (Israel! You build temples for me) (Double Chorus) 00:00 Tools
Piano Trio in D Major, Op. 22: III. Andante espressivo - IV. Finale: Allegro con brio 00:00 Tools
Theme and Variations in C minor: Variation 1 00:00 Tools
Theme and Variations in C minor: Theme 00:00 Tools
Cantata for the Unveiling of the Moscow Pushkin Memorial, "Ya pamyatnik sebe vozdvig nerukotvorniy" (I Have Built myself a Monument not Made by Hands) 00:00 Tools
String Quartet No. 2 in C major, Op. 5: IV. Finale: Allegro vigorosamente 00:00 Tools
Largo 00:00 Tools
Maska (Mask) 00:00 Tools
Symphony No. 4 In C Minor, Op. 12: IV. Finale: Allegro Energico 00:00 Tools
12 Choruses, Op. 27: XII. Those Days When Over the Drowsy Sea 00:00 Tools
Minuet No. 9, Op. 26 00:00 Tools
Scherzo in C Major 00:00 Tools
II Gavotte (Allegro moderato) 00:00 Tools
12 Choruses, Op. 27: XI. Over the Mountains Two Gloomy Clouds 00:00 Tools
Oresteia, Act I - "Agamemnon", Scene 2: No. 8 "Сюда! На помощь!" 00:00 Tools
III Fairy tale (Andantino) 00:00 Tools
Quadrille in A Major 00:00 Tools
Noch v Gorakh Shotlandii (Night in the Mountains of Scotland) 00:00 Tools
Symphony No. 2 In B Flat Major: I. Adagio - Allegro 00:00 Tools
String Quintet No. 1 in G Major, Op. 14: III. Tema con variazioni: Variation 7 00:00 Tools
String Quintet No. 1 in G Major, Op. 14: III. Tema con variazioni: Variation 4 00:00 Tools
String Quintet No. 1 in G Major, Op. 14: III. Tema con variazioni: Variation 6 00:00 Tools
String Quintet No. 1 in G Major, Op. 14: III. Tema con variazioni: Variation 3 00:00 Tools
String Quintet No. 1 in G Major, Op. 14: III. Tema con variazioni: Variation 9 - Variation 10 00:00 Tools
Prelude & Fugue in G-sharp major, Op.29: Prelude 00:00 Tools
V Tarantella (Presto) 00:00 Tools
12 Choruses, Op. 27: IX. From the Clouds 00:00 Tools
Suite de concert, Op. 28: IV. Theme and Variations: Variation 5: Presto scherzando 00:00 Tools
Oresteia, Act I - "Agamemnon", Scene 2: No. 5 "Миг счастливый!" 00:00 Tools
Oresteia, Act II - "The Libation Bearers", Scene 1: No. 12 "Клитемнестра!" 00:00 Tools
Oresteia, Act II - "The Libation Bearers", Scene 2: No. 14 "Гермий! Великий бог" 00:00 Tools
Oresteia, Act II - "The Libation Bearers", Scene 3: No. 18 "Эй, раб!" 00:00 Tools
Oresteia, Act I - "Agamemnon", Scene 2: No. 9 "Кровавое, давно задуманное дело' 00:00 Tools
Oresteia, Act II - "The Libation Bearers", Scene 3: No. 19 "Привет тебе, о, странник" 00:00 Tools
Ne Veter Veya s Vysoty (That was not the Wind that Touched My Soul) 00:00 Tools
Concert Suite For Violin and Orchestra, Op. 28: I Praludium (Grave) 00:00 Tools
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Сергей Иванович Танеев {Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev} (1856–1915) was a Russian composer, pianist, teacher of composition, music theorist, and author. Taneyev was born on the 25th November 1856 in Vladimir, to a cultured and literary family of Russian nobility. A distant cousin, Alexander Taneyev, was also a composer, whose daughter, Anna Vyrubova, was highly influential at court. He began taking piano lessons at the age of five with a private teacher. His family moved to Moscow in 1865. The following year, the nine-year-old Taneyev entered the Moscow Conservatory. His first piano teacher at the Conservatory was Edward Langer. After a year's interruption in his studies, Taneyev studied again with Langer. He also joined the theory class of Nikola Hubert and, most importantly, the composition class of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. In 1871, Taneyev studied piano with the Conservatory's founder, Nikolai Rubinstein. Taneyev graduated in 1875, the first student in the history of the Conservatory to win the gold medal both for composition and for performing (piano). He was also the first person ever to be awarded the Conservatory's Great Gold Medal; the second was Arseny Koreshchenko, and the third was Sergei Rachmaninoff. That summer he travelled abroad with Rubinstein. That year he also made his debut as a concert pianist in Moscow playing the first piano concerto in D minor of Johannes Brahms, and would become known for his interpretations of Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Ludwig van Beethoven. In March 1876 he toured Russia with violinist Leopold Auer. Taneyev was also the soloist in the Moscow première of Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto in 1875. Tchaikovsky was clearly impressed by Taneyev's performance; he later asked Taneyev to be soloist in the Russian premiere of his Second Piano Concerto. (After Tchaikovsky's death, Taneyev also completed and premiered his Third Piano Concerto and Andante and Finale.) Taneyev attended Moscow University for a short time and was acquainted with outstanding Russian writers, including Ivan Turgenev and Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin. During his travels in Western Europe in 1876 and 1877, he met Émile Zola, Gustave Flaubert, César Franck and Camille Saint-Saëns amongst others. When Tchaikovsky resigned from the Moscow Conservatory in 1878, Taneyev was appointed to teach harmony. He would later also teach piano and composition. He served as Director from 1885 to 1889, and continued teaching until 1905. He had great influence as a teacher of composition. His pupils included Alexander Scriabin, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Reinhold Glière, Paul Juon, Julius Conus, and Nikolai Medtner. The polyphonic interweaves in the music of Rachmaninoff and Medtner stem directly from Taneyev's teaching. Scriabin, on the other hand, broke away from Taneyev's influence. Taneyev was also a scholar of massive erudition. In addition to music, he studied - for relaxation - natural and social science, history, mathematics, and the philosophy of Plato and Spinoza. During the summers of 1895 and 1896, Taneyev stayed at Yasnaya Polyana, the home of Leo Tolstoy and his wife Sofia. She developed an attachment to the composer which embarrassed her children and made Tolstoy jealous, though Taneyev himself remained unaware of it.. However this also released her from the distress of the isolation she experienced when Tolstoy grew distant from family concerns and devoted himself to the Christian anarchist-pacifism which shaped his last years. Sofia's infatuation with Taneyev and his music echoes the story of Tolstoy's great and penetrating dissection of marital relations in The Kreutzer Sonata. In 1905, the revolution and its consequent effect on the Moscow Conservatory led Taneyev to resign from the staff there. He resumed his career as a concert pianist, both as soloist and chamber musician. He was also able to pursue composition more intensely, completing chamber works with a piano part which he could play in concerts as well as some choruses and a substantial number of songs. His last completed work was the cantata At the Reading of a Psalm, completed at the beginning of 1915. Taneyev contracted pneumonia after attending the funeral of Scriabin. While he was recovering, he succumbed to a heart attack on the 19th June 1915 in Dyudkovo, near Moscow. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.