Yevgeny Korchinsky
Yevgeny Korchinsky (17 July 1904 – 3 July 1965) was a Soviet musicologist and music educator. He received the degree of Candidate of Art History in 1962.
He was born at Shilka station on the Trans-Baikal Railway in the Russian Empire. From 1924 to 1928, he studied music theory with Nikolai Alexandrov and Anatoly Alexandrov.
Korchinsky taught at the Tomsk Music College from 1929 to 1934 and again from 1937 to 1939. Between those appointments, from 1934 to 1937, he served as musical director of the Novosibirsk Radio Committee.
From 1939 to 1941, he studied at the Leningrad Music Pedagogical Institute while teaching at the music school attached to the Leningrad Conservatory. During the Second World War, he was evacuated to Tomsk, where he resumed teaching theoretical subjects and music history at the Tomsk Music College. The composer Edison Denisov was one of his students. In 1954, Korchinsky founded the college's music-theory department and became its first head.
He moved to Sverdlovsk in 1960 to teach at the Ural Conservatory, where he became an associate professor in 1964. In 1962, he defended his dissertation, “On the Theory of Canonical Imitation.” His musicological writings extended Sergei Taneyev's theory to different canonical forms.
Korchinsky died in Sverdlovsk on 3 July 1965 and was buried at Siberian Cemetery in Yekaterinburg.