Vladimir Shcherbachov

Vladimir Vladimirovich Shcherbachov (Shcherbachyov, Shcherbachev) (; 25 January 1889, in Warsaw – 5 March 1952, in Leningrad) was a Soviet composer. He studied with Maximilian Steinberg, Anatoly Lyadov, and Jāzeps Vītols (Joseph Wihtol) at the St. Petersburg Conservatory from 1908 to 1914. While there he also worked as a pianist for Sergey Diaghilev and taught theory. He served in World War I and then worked in Soviet government music positions. In 1918-1923 he worked as a lecturer and ran the musical department of the Narkompros. He later became a professor at the Leningrad Conservatory (1923-1931 and 1944-1948) and the Tbilisi Conservatory. He counted Boris Arapov, Vasily Velikanov, Evgeny Mravinsky, Valery Zhelobinsky, Gavriil Popov, Valerian Bogdanov-Berezovsky, Pyotr Ryazanov, and Mikhail Chulaki among his pupils, as well as various others. Works *Anna Kolossova, opera (1939, unfinished); *Tabachny Kapitan, operetta (1943); * Five symphonies: **No. 1 (1914); **No. 2 (“Blokovskaya” or “Blok”, with soloists and chorus, 1925); **No. 3 (Symphony-Suite, 1931); **No. 4 (“Izhorskaya”, with soloists and chorus, 1935); **No. 5 (“Russkaya”, 1948, 2nd version in 1950); *Nonet for 7 instr