London Festival Orchestra - Ballet Suite from the Nutcracker Op. 71a: Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fai

ANTSEV Mikhail Vasilievich [30 IX (12 X) 1865, Smolensk - 21 VII 1945, Moscow] - Soviet composer and teacher. From 1886 he studied at the Warsaw Muses. Institute at G. Freeman and S. Bartsevich (violin), Z. Noskovsky (composition). In 1894 he graduated from St. Petersburg. the conservatory according to the classes of Yu. I. Johansen (harmony, counterpoint) and N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov (composition). In 1894-96, a teacher of singing at the Elizabethan Institute (St. Petersburg). Since 1896 he lived in Vitebsk, taught a choir. singing in various educational institutions; in 1905-12 the editor of gas. “Vitebsk lips. Vedomosti ”,“ People’s Leaflet ”(annex to the“ Vitebsk Province. Vedomosti ”). Since 1919 he lectured on the history of music in Nar. conservatory, performed as a muse. reviewer. After the October Revolution, he was one of the first composers who turned to the revolution in his work. themes (choirs “In Memory of Heroes”, “Song of Struggle”, 1922). Author prod. for violin and piano. , choirs, romances, arr. Nar songs, teaching aids, including books “Brief information for singers-choristers . . . ” (SPB, 1897, M. , [b. g. ]), “Preparatory course in the elementary theory of music in connection with the teaching of choral singing” (SPB-M. , 1897), “Music terminology. Reference dictionary . . . ", (Vitebsk, 1904). I. M. Yampolsky.