Arseny Nikolayevich Koreshchenko was a Russia

Russia

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n pianist and composer of classical music, including opera

Opera

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s and ballet

Ballet

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s.

Biography

Koreshchenko was born in Moscow

Moscow

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 in 1870. He entered the Moscow Conservatory

Moscow Conservatory

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, graduating in 1891. He was only the second person ever to be awarded the Conservatory's Great Gold Medal; the first was one of his teachers, Sergei Taneyev

Sergei Taneyev

Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev , was a Russian composer, pianist, teacher of composition, music theorist and author.-Life:...

, and the third was Sergei Rachmaninoff

Sergei Rachmaninoff

Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one of the last great representatives of Romanticism in Russian classical music...

. He also studied theory under Anton Arensky

Anton Arensky

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.

He stayed with his alma mater as a professor of harmony and also taught counterpoint at the Moscow Synodal School.

He died in Kharkov

Kharkiv

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 in 1921.

Opera

• Belshazzar's Feast, Op. 7 (1 act, produced Mocow, 1892)
• The Angel of Death, Op. 10 (2 acts, based on Mikhail Lermontov
  Mikhail Lermontov
  Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov , a Russian Romantic writer, poet and painter, sometimes called "the poet of the Caucasus", became the most important Russian poet after Alexander Pushkin's death in 1837. Lermontov is considered the supreme poet of Russian literature alongside Pushkin and the greatest...
  
  )
• The Ice Palace, Op. 38 (based on Ivan Lazhechnikov
  Ivan Lazhechnikov
  Ivan Ivanovich Lazhechnikov , September 25, 1792 – July 8, 1869, was a Russian writer.-Biography:Lazhechnikov was born into the family of a rich merchant in Kolomna in 1792. He received a well-rounded education from private tutors at home...
  
  's play; produced Moscow 1900)

Incidental Music

• The Trojan Women
  The Trojan Women
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  (Euripides
  Euripides
  Euripides was one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens, the other two being Aeschylus and Sophocles. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays to him but according to the Suda it was ninety-two at most...
  
  ), Op. 15
• Iphigenia in Aulis (Euripides), Op. 18

Choral works

• Don Juan, cantata, Op. 5
• Armenian Songs, Op. 8
• Prologue for the 25th anniversary of the Moscow Conservatory, Op. 9
• Armenian Songs, Op. 13
• Georgian Songs, Op. 27c
• other (Opp. 16, 29, 32, 37)

Orchestral

• Barcarolle, Op. 6
• A Tale, Op. 11
• Scène poétique, Op. 12
• Two Symphonic Sketches, Op. 14
• Armenian Suite, Op. 20 (also arranged for piano 4 hands)
• Scènes nocturnes, Op. 21
• Symphony No. 1 Lyric, Op. 23
• Musical Picture, Op. 27a

Concertante

• Concert Fantasy in D minor, for piano and orchestra (or two pianos), Op. 3 (pub. 1895)

Chamber

• String Quartet, Op. 25
• Two pieces for Cello and Piano, Op. 34 (?1898, ded. Anatoliy Brandukov
  Anatoliy Brandukov
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  ) (1. Sonnet d’amour, A major; 2. Barcarolle, A minor)

Piano

• Trois Morceaux, Op. 1 (1893) (1. Berceuse; 2. Étude; 3. Polonaise)
• Suite Armeniènne, Op. 20 (5 pieces) (arr. of the orchestral suite for pf duet and pf solo by the composer, pub. 1897) (1. Au ruisseau (Lento non troppo); 2. Scherzo (Allegro moderato); 3. Tempo di valse; 4. Danse armenienne (Allegretto grazioso e non troppo); 5. Finale (Lesghinka) (Allegro ma non troppo))
• Scènes Enfantines, Op. 22 (6 pieces, 1898, ded. Josef Hoffman) (1. L'ogre; 2. Petit scherzo; 3. Petite marche; 4. Complainte; 5. Menuet; 6. Valse à la Neapolitaine)
• Quatre Morceaux, Op. 30 (1897) (1. Nocturne; 2. Gavotte; 3. Rapsodie Georgiènne No. 1; 4. Rapsodie Georgiènne No. 2)
• Morceaux Caractéristiques, Op. 40 (1904, ded. Alexander Goldenweiser) (1. Prélude; 2. Intermezzo; 3. Aveu; 4. Barcarolle; 5. Une page de mes mémoires; 6. Quéstion douloureuse; 7. Impromptu)
• Piano Pieces, Op. 47 (1915) (of which no. 7 is an Impromptu, A flat major)
• other (Opp. 19, 33)

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