Nunc dimittis alexander gretchaninov biography

Alexander Tikhonovich Gretchaninov (also commonly transliterated as Aleksandr/Alexandre Grechaninov/Gretchaninoff/Gretschaninow; Russian: Александр Тихонович Гречанинов) (25 October [O.S.

Nunc dimittis alexander gretchaninov biography

13 October] 1864, Moscow – 3 January 1956, New York City) was a RussianRomantic composer.

His life

Gretchaninov started his musical studies rather late because his father, a businessman, had expected the boy to take over the family firm.

Gretchaninov himself related that he did not see a piano until he was 14 and began his studies at the Moscow Conservatory in 1881 against his father's wishes and without his knowledge. His main teachers there were Sergei Taneyev and Anton Arensky.

In the late 1880s, after a quarrel with Arensky, he moved to St. Petersburg where he studied composition and or