1. Anatoly Lyadov was taught informally by his conductor step-father Konstantin Lyadov from 1860 to 1868, and then in 1870 entered the Saint Petersburg Conservatory to study piano and violin.
12 Facts About Anatoly Lyadov
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Anatoly Lyadov soon gave up instrumental study to concentrate on counterpoint and fugue, although he remained a fine pianist.
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Anatoly Lyadov taught at the St Petersburg Conservatory from 1878, with pupils including Sergei Prokofiev, Nikolai Myaskovsky, Mikhail Gnesin, Lazare Saminsky, Lyubov Streicher, and Boris Asafyev.
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Igor Stravinsky remarked that Anatoly Lyadov was as strict with himself as he was with his pupils, writing with great precision and demanding fine attention to detail.
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Anatoly Lyadov introduced timber millionaire and philanthropist Mitrofan Belyayev to the music of the teenage Alexander Glazunov.
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Anatoly Lyadov published music by Glazunov, Lyadov, Rimsky-Korsakov and Borodin at his own expense.
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Anatoly Lyadov had, for example, presented Lyadov a copy of the score of his Manfred Symphony.
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Anatoly Lyadov married into money in 1884, acquiring through his marriage a country property in Polynovka, Borovichevsky, Novgorod Governorate, where he spent his summers composing unhurriedly, and where he died in 1914.
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Anatoly Lyadov's published compositions are relatively few due to a certain self-critical lack of confidence.
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Anatoly Lyadov did compose a large number of piano miniatures, of which his Musical Snuffbox of 1893 is perhaps most famous.
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In 1905 Anatoly Lyadov began work on a new ballet score, but when the work failed to progress, he shifted gears to work on an opera instead.
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Anatoly Lyadov never finished the opera, but sections of the work found realization in the short tone poems Kikimora and The Enchanted Lake.