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Leonid Sabaneyev Was Born In Moscow In 1881 And His Musical Studies Were Under Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Sergei Taneyev Nikolai Zverev And Paul De Schlözer At The Moscow Conservatory. He Graduated In Mathematics And Physics From Moscow University In 1908. He Wrote Some Early Works Such As Incidental Music To King Oedipus 1889 A Funeral March In Memory Of Beethoven Two Trios Including A Trio-Impromptu For Violin Cello And Piano Op. 4 Piano Pieces Including A Piano Sonata Op. 15 And Songs. He Then Made A Special Study Of Alexander Scriabin And Became An Authority On That Composer See Synthetic Chord . His First Book On Scriabin Was Published In 1916. In Addition To His Own Original Works He Transcribed Scriabin's Prometheus The Poem Of Fire For 2 Pianos. He Founded The Moscow Institute Of Musicology. He Was Both A Conservative And A Progressive His Ideas Included A Scale Comprising 53 Notes And Hoped To Create A "Laboratory Of The Exact Science Of Music". Sabaneyev Famously Embarrassed Himself In 1915 By Publishing A Scathing Review Of The Premiere Of Sergei Prokofiev's Scythian Suite - A Performance That Had Actually Been Canceled At The Last Minute. This Prompted A Response From Prokofiev Stating That The Supposed Performance Must Have Been A Product Of Sabaneyev's Imagination As The Only Copy Of The Score Was In The Composer's Hands And Thus The Critic Had Not Even Been Able To See It. However Later Prokofiev Said That Sabaneyev Had Information About The Suite From His Friends Who Had Already Heard The Suite And He Probably Wouldn't Have Changed A Word In His Review Even If He Had Heard It In Concert. Sabaneyev Left Russia In 1926 After Publishing Scriabin 1916 2/1923 History Of Russian Music 1924 The General History Of Music 1925 And Music After October On Post-Revolution Music In Russia . History Of Russian Music Was Translated Into German 1926 And Received Very Positive Reviews From Critics Such As Maurice Cauchie. In His Later Years He Lived In Paris London The United States And Nice Where He Is Buried. His Musicological Works From This Period Include Modern Russian Composers 1927 A Monograph On Taneyev 1930 And Music For The Films 1935 . His Students In Paris Included The Swedish Composers Dag Wirén And Gösta Nystroem. His Later Musical Works Included A Ballet A Symphonic Poem And The Oratorio The Revelation Of St John 1940 . He Also Wrote Variations On A Theme Of Scriabin For Unknown Forces. He Also Had Several Science Works On Mathematics And Zoology. He Died In Cap D'Antibes France In 1968. read less