TRIBUTES TO NIKOLAI TCHEREPNIN

SERGE PROKOFIEV
Of all my teachers, Tcherepnin was the liveliest and most interesting musician. Although I didn't learn all I should have about orchestration in Rimsky-Korsakov's class, I made up for it in Tcherepnin's class. His talks about conducting were always meaningful; his talk about the future of music was no less interesting: he struck me as such an innovator that it made my head swim.

ALEXANDER TCHEREPNIN
Nikolai Tcherepnin was the founder of the conducting class at St. Petersburg Conservatory-a class that soon became the center for new ideas, the center of the struggle against academicism. He was the first among Russian composers to discover the richness of our church songs. Great artist, enlightened creator, true believer.

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