Georgy Rimsky-Korsakov

Georgy Mikhailovich Rimsky-Korsakov was a Russian Soviet composer and music teacher. He was born on January 26, 1901, in St. Petersburg, and was the grandson of the celebrated Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. He grew up in the family of the zoologist Mikhail Rimsky-Korsakov.

In 1926 he graduated from the Leningrad Conservatory, where he studied composition with Maximilian Steinberg, who was also his uncle. In 1929 he completed postgraduate study at the Leningrad Institute of Theatre and Music. He later defended a dissertation for the degree of Candidate of Art Studies on questions of music theory and acoustics under the supervision of Boris Asafyev and Aleksandr Finagin.

With the emergence of sound cinema in the Soviet Union in 1928, Rimsky-Korsakov worked in the laboratories and studios of Lenfilm and Techfilm. From 1929 to 1932 he served as a sound engineer at the Lenfilm film factory. He was also a research associate of the Leningrad Institute of Theatre and Music in the music and cinema departments in 1929–1932 and again in 1942–1946.

From 1927 to 1962 he taught musical acoustics and orchestration at the Leningrad Conservatory, becoming an associate professor in 1928. During 1942–1944 he also taught music-theoretical subjects at the Tomsk Music College. In 1944 he was one of the founders of the N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov House-Museum in Tikhvin.

Rimsky-Korsakov was the author of articles and books, as well as music for the productions Stepan Razin by Vasily Kamensky, written jointly with Nikolai Malakhovsky in 1924 in Leningrad, and Lenin, a montage of various authors, written jointly with Nikolai Malakhovsky and Yury Tyulin in 1925. He also wrote other works on musical acoustics, music theory, and the theory of the quarter-tone system, including The Foundation of the Quarter-Tone System.

He died in Leningrad on September 10, 1965, and was buried at Shuvalovo Cemetery.

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