AKA Nikolai Leonidovich Slonimsky

Born: 27-Apr-1894
Birthplace: St. Petersburg, Russia
Died: 25-Dec-1995
Location of death: Los Angeles, CA
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Male
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Musicologist, Composer, Conductor

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Preeminent musicologist

Emigrated to the United States in 1923. Conducted debut performances of works by Charles Ives, Edgard Var�se (Ionisation, 1933), and Henry Cowell. Responsible for overhauling Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians for its fifth edition in 1958, maintaining that reference in subsequent editions up to the eighth in 1991.

Father: Leonid Slonimsky
Mother: Faina Vengerova
Wife: Dorothy Adlow (m. 30-Jul-1931, d. 1964)
Daughter: Electra Yourke

    University: St. Petersberg Conservatory (1910-18)
    Teacher: Eastman School of Music (1923-25)
    Teacher: Slavonic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University (1945-47)
    Teacher: Lecturer in Music, Simmons College (1948-49)
    Teacher: Music, University of California at Los Angeles (1964-67)

    Naturalized US Citizen 1931

    FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
    Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey (29-Jan-1994) · Himself

Author of books:
Music Since 1900 (1937)
Music of Latin America (1945)
The Road to Music (1947)
Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns (1947)
A Thing or Two About Music (1948)
Lexicon of Musical Invective (1952)
Lectionary of Music (1988)
Perfect Pitch: A Life Story (1988, memoir)
Nicolas Slonimsky: The First Hundred Years (1994, anthology, ed. Richard Kostelanetz)

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