Mikhail Mikhailovich Chernov was a Soviet composer and music teacher. He was born in Kronstadt on April 22, 1879, and died in Leningrad on July 6, 1938. In 1918 he became a professor, and in 1938 he received the degree of Doctor of Art History.
He studied at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of Saint Petersburg University, graduating in 1903. He then completed his studies at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory in 1906 in the composition class. Among his teachers were Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Anatoly Lyadov.
From 1910 to 1938, Chernov taught theory of composition and orchestration at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, later known as the Petrograd and Leningrad Conservatory. From 1930 to 1937 he served as head of the instrumentation department. He trained a number of talented musicians and composers; his students included Lev Abe, Aleksandr Gauk, Aleksandr Zhivotov, Kristofor Kushnaryov, Yevgeny Mravinsky, Yevgeny Ovchinnikov, and Pyotr Ryazanov.
As a composer, Chernov wrote a number of comic operas and operettas, including Topsy (1909), as well as the musical comedy Heat Lightning (with A. A. Loginov, 1931). He also composed the cantata John of Damascus to words by Aleksey Tolstoy (1906), the Hymn of the Komsomol for choir and orchestra (1928), three symphonies (1907; 1924; and a third dedicated to the memory of Franz Schubert), a concerto for cello and orchestra (1937), piano works, music for dramatic theater productions, and a number of songs and romances.
In 1928 he received first prize in the Soviet Union for a symphony at the international competition marking the centenary of the death of Franz Schubert. Chernov was buried at the Writers' Footbridges section of Volkovo Cemetery in Saint Petersburg.
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