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Akimenko

Fyodor Akimenko (1876–1945) was a Ukrainian composer who trained in St Petersburg under Balakirev, Liadov, and Rimsky-Korsakov. He taught at the St Petersburg Conservatory from 1903, where he was Stravinsky's first composition teacher, before leaving Russia in 1923 and eventually settling in Paris. His music is rooted in the Russian lyric school: expressive, late Romantic, and closely allied to the piano tradition. His output includes two violin sonatas and a range of shorter pieces for violin and piano, well suited to recital and examination programmes.

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