Alexander Yurasovsky
Alexander Ivanovich Yurasovsky (1890–1922) was a Russian conductor and composer. He was born in the village of Mishkovo, in Mtsensk District of Oryol Governorate, and was the son of the opera singer and teacher Nadezhda Salina and the grandson of the violinist Vasily Salin.
Yurasovsky graduated from the Faculty of Law at Moscow University and from the Moscow Conservatory, where he studied piano with Vasily Safonov and composition with Alexander Gretchaninov and Reinhold Glière. From 1912 he conducted popular symphonic concerts in Moscow, Kharkiv, and Odesa. In 1919 he initiated the creation of a symphony orchestra in Smolensk and served as its chief conductor until 1921.
His compositions included the opera Trilby (1919), to his own libretto after the novel by George du Maurier; it was first performed at the Theatre of Musical Drama on 27 February 1924 and was subsequently staged in Kharkiv, Kyiv, Odesa, Baku, Perm, Saratov, Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre, Irkutsk, and Ulan-Ude. He also wrote the symphonic poems Spring Symphony and Phantoms, two trios, a concert poem for piano and orchestra, songs, fourteen melodramas, and incidental music, including music for The Prince from the Manor at the Maly Theatre. He died of typhus in Moscow in 1922.