Sergei Mikhailovich Chemodanov was a Soviet music writer, pedagogue, and lecturer. He was born on July 30, 1888, in Kirillovka, a village in Moscow Province, and died on March 6, 1942, in Moscow.
From 1907 to 1911 he studied at the Faculty of History and Philology of Moscow University. He was expelled in his final year for taking part in organizing a general student strike, but in 1912 he passed all state examinations externally. In 1910 he entered the Moscow Conservatory, where he studied piano with Konstantin Igumnov. In 1914 he graduated from the pedagogical department, and then continued in the senior, or virtuoso, department until 1916.
Chemodanov taught and lectured in several fields. He gave lectures on general history in Moscow and on Russian history in Tiflis at the university from 1917 to 1919. At the Tiflis Conservatory he taught courses in the history of music and the history of the arts, and from 1918 to 1923 he also taught piano performance.
From 1923 he worked in Moscow. He taught music history at Moscow State University from 1923 to 1931, at GITIS from 1923 to 1942, and at other educational institutions. He also appeared as a music critic and carried out broad musical and educational work. He wrote many articles in the periodical press and prepared radio broadcasts, while part of his scholarly work remained in manuscript.
His published works include History of Music in Connection with the History of Social Development: An Attempt at a Marxist Construction of the History of Music (Kyiv, 1927), a libretto edition of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin (1927), studies on Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov published in 1927 and 1933, What Everyone Should Know About Music (1930), and a book on Mikhail Glinka issued in 1942.
Chemodanov died in 1942 and was buried at Vagankovo Cemetery in Moscow.
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