Yuri Sakhnovsky, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Yuri Sakhnovsky

Composer and conductor

Date of Birth: 25-Sep-1866

Place of Birth: Sverdlovsky, Moscow Oblast, Russia

Date of Death: 02-Apr-1930

Profession: composer, conductor, music critic

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Yuri Sergeevich Sakhnovsky (Russian: ?´??? ?????´???? ?????´?????) (1866–1930) was a Russian composer, conductor and music critic.Sakhnovsky came from a well-off family and was known as a "bon vivant (he weighed 260.lbs) handsome, brilliant and wealthy".Sakhnovsky studied chant with Stepan Vasilevich Smolensky, to whom Sergei Rachmaninoff dedicated his Vespers, though Sakhnovsky later turned to a more "lush" style of choral writing.
While a student Sakhnovsky took in his eight-year younger fellow student Rachmaninoff during the difficult winter when it seemed he was suffering from malaria. In later life Sakhnovsky was active more as a critic than a composer.
Particularly notorious were his attacks on Alexander Scriabin's music as "decadent" from 1911-1914. His song "The Blacksmith" was recorded by Maxim Mikhailov and his song "The Clock" was recorded by Vladimir Rosing.