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Typed list of Aleksandr Chesnokov works; two photographs of a Russian student choir named after Arkhangel'skii.
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Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Aleksandr Chesnokov Papers; Box and Folder (if known); Bakhmeteff Archive, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Libraries.
Manuscript and Photographs: Source of acquisition--Galina A. Volikovskai︠a︡-Chesnokova. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1980.
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Manuscript and Photographs Accessioned 1980.
Manuscript and Photographs Processed 07/--/83.
Formerly part of Bakhmeteff (BAR) General Ms Collection with Coll No. BAR Gen Ms Coll/Chesnokov.
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Aleksandr Grigor'evich Chesnokov (pseudonyms: Al. Daleau, Al. Tchayss; 1880, Moscow - 1941, Paris), prolific choir composer, choir conductor, music critic, teacher, professor (1919), younger brother of the famous Russian church composer and conductor Pavel Chesnokov. In 1899 graduated with excellence from the Moscow Synodal School of Church Singing. Continued his education in Petrograd Conservatory (Rimsky-Korsakov and Glazunov class), which he completed in 1906. In 1923 emigrated to Prague, where he conducted the Russian Student Chorus named after Aleksandr Arkhangelskii. Then settled down in Paris. Lectured in the Russian Conservatory and taught church singing in the Sviato-Sergievskii Bogoslovskii Institute, made music-hall arrangements for a publishing company, wrote his own music. Buried in France at the Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois.
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| Soviet Union -- Music -- 20th century | CLIO Catalog | ArchiveGRID |