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Person
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Lyadov, Anatoly
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Dates of existence
1855-1914
History
Anatoly Lyadov was born in St. Petersburg where he studied music with his stepfather, Konstantin Lyadov (1860-1868), before entering the St. Petersburg Conservatory for piano and violin. During the 1870s, he became associated with a group of Russian composers known as "The Mighty Handful" and studied composition with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.