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Biography of Sergei Taneyev - Classical Composers
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mergefrom|List of string quartets by Sergei Taneyev Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev (also Taneev or Taneiev) (November 25, 1856 – June 19 1915) ((Gregorian calendar|N.S.)), a pupil of Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a Russia|Russian composer, teacher, theorist and author. His substantial output of music included nine complete string quartets (two partial), a piano quintet, two string quintets and other chamber works; four symphony|symphonies (only one published during his lifetime, and at least one incomplete), a concert suite with violin and a piano concerto, and other orchestral works; organ music; much choir|choral and vocal music; one piano prelude and fugue (the prelude and fugue in G sharp, published in a Dover Publications edition of Russian piano works) and an opera, Oresteia. His uncle, Aleksandr Taneyev|Alexander Sergeevich Taneyev was also a composer. See also List of string quartets by Sergei Taneyev ==Book== Invertible Counterpoint in the Strict Style, by Sergei Taneyev. 1962 edition, Branden Pub. Co. ISBN 0828314152. Preface written by Serge Koussevitzky. composer-stub

