Alexandre Dubuque

Who was Alexandre Dubuque?

Alexandre Dubuque, also Alexander and Dubuc, was a 19th-century Russian pianist, composer and teacher of French descent.

He was born and died in Moscow. His father was a refugee from the French Revolution who had fled to Russia.

He was a student of John Field and later gave piano lessons to Mily Balakirev and Nikolai Zverev.

One of his works was "Ne brani menya rodnaya", which was played by Léon Theremin around the 1950s and later by Kaia Galina Urb with Heiki Matlik.