Nikolai Zhilyayev (musicologist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Nikolai Zhilyayev (musicologist)

Russian musicologist

Date of Birth: 18-Oct-1881

Place of Birth: Kursk, Kursk Oblast, Russia

Date of Death: 20-Jan-1938

Profession: composer, conductor, university teacher, musicologist, music pedagogue

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Nikolay Sergeyevich Zhilyayev (Russian: ??????´? ?????´???? ????´??, Nikolaj Sergejevic Žiljajev; 18 November (N.S.) 1881 – 20 January 1938), was a Russian musicologist, and the teacher of several 20th-century Russian composers.
He was a victim of political repression in the Soviet Union. He was a pupil of Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov and Sergei Taneyev at the Moscow Conservatory in around 1904.
He went on to teach there himself.
His pupils included the composers Yevgeny Golubev, Aram Khachaturian, Alexei Fedorovich Kozlovsky, Alexei Vladimirovich Stanchinsky, Anatoly Nikolayevich Alexandrov and Samuil Evgenyevich Feinberg. He was a member of the Russian Academy of Art-Sciences and of the State Institute of Musical Science.
He wrote many essays.