Mikhail Leonidowitsch Starokadomski

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Mikhail Leonidovich Starokadomski ( Russian Михаил Леонидович Старокадомский ., Scientific transliteration Mikhail Leonidovič Starokadomskij ; born May 31 . Jul / 13. June  1901 greg. In Brest ; † 24. April 1954 in Moscow ) was a Russian composer and organist.

Starokadomski studied organ with Alexander Goedicke and composition with Nikolai Mjaskowski at the Moscow Conservatory. He was then an organ student of Alfred Sittard in Hamburg and of Karl Straube and Günther Ramin in Leipzig . From 1930 he worked at the Moscow Conservatory as an instrumentation teacher.

In addition to an opera and several operettas , he composed a violin and an orchestral concerto, a concerto for organ and string orchestra, chamber music works, an oratorio , drama and film music and songs .

Starokadomski Island is named after his father .

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