Théodore Akimenko (Fedir Yakymenko) - Nocturne for strings

Théodore Akimenko / Fedir Yakymenko ( * 1876 in Kharkiv, † 1945 in Paris) - Nocturne for strings
Ludwigsburg Festival Orchestra,
Vitali Alekseenok - conductor
Ludwigsburg Festival, June 2022.
Yakymenko comes from the village of Pisky near Kharkiv. At the age of ten, he was selected to join the Court Chapel in St Petersburg. In 1886-1895, he studied piano with Mily Balakirev. In 1900, he graduated from the St. Petersburg Conservatory (composition class with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Anatoly Lyadov). From 1897 he worked as a teacher at the conducting courses of the Court Chapel. Later he became the director of music schools in Tbilisi (1901-1903) and in Nice (1903-1906). In 1914, he was invited to teach composition and music theory at the St Petersburg Conservatoire (he worked there until 1923). Yakymenko was Igor Stravinsky's first composition teacher.

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