Leonid Sabaneyev was born in Moscow in 1881 and his musical studies were under
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov,
Sergei Taneyev,
Nikolai Zverev and
Paul de Schlözer at the
Moscow Conservatory. piano pieces (including a Piano Sonata, Op. 15 and hoped to create a "Laboratory of the Exact Science of Music". Sabaneyev left Russia in 1926, after publishing
Scriabin (1916, 2/1923),
History of Russian Music (1924),
The General History of Music (1925), and
Music After October (on post-revolution music in Russia).
History of Russian Music was translated into German (1926) and received very positive reviews from critics such as Maurice Cauchie. In his later years he lived in Paris, London, the United States, and
Nice, where he is buried. His musicological works from this period include
Modern Russian Composers (1927), a monograph on Taneyev (1930), and
Music for the Films (1935). His students in Paris included the Swedish composers
Dag Wirén and
Gösta Nystroem. His later musical works included a ballet, a symphonic poem, and the
oratorio The Revelation of St John (1940). He died in
Cap d'Antibes, France, in 1968. ==List of main compositions==