Nikolai Tcherepnin
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Nikolai Nikolayevich Tcherepnin (May 15 [O.S. May 3] 1873 – 27 June 1945) was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. He was born in Saint Petersburg and studied under Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. He conducted for the first Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes.
From 1905 to 1917 he was principal of the conservatory of St. Petersburg. In 1918 he was invited to take the post of director of the National Conservatory of Tbilisi, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Georgia. Following the Bolshevik takeover of Georgia in 1921, he moved to Paris and lived there for the rest of his life.
He was the father of the American composer and piano player Alexander Cherepnin.
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