Before entering the St. Petersburg Conservatory, Mikhail Gnesin showed his romances to Anatoly Lyadov, who gave them an approving review and advised him to enroll there. After the death of his main teacher, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Gnesin spent a year in Lyadov's free composition class at the St. Petersburg Conservatory and graduated in 1909; his name was entered on the conservatory's marble board of its most outstanding graduates.
Anatoly Lyadov → Mikhail Gnesin
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Anatoly Lyadov
2026–2026
Mikhail Gnesin
1883–2026