Nicolas Slonimsky
Music critic, Composer
1894 – 1995
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Who was Nicolas Slonimsky?
Nicolas Slonimsky, born Nikolai Leonidovich Slonimskiy, was a Russian-born American conductor, author, pianist, composer and lexicographer. Best known for his writing and musical reference work, he wrote the Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns and the Lexicon of Musical Invective, and edited Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians.
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- Born
- Apr 27, 1894
Saint Petersburg - Also known as
- Nikolai Leonidovich Slonimsky
- Ethnicity
- Jewish people
- Nationality
- Russia
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Saint Petersburg Conservatory
Harmony (Music) - Orchestration
- Saint Petersburg Conservatory
- Lived in
- Los Angeles
(1964 - 1995/12/25)
- Los Angeles
- Died
- Dec 25, 1995
Los Angeles
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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