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	Biography of Alexander Tcherepnin by Phillip Ramey
		Alexander's maternal grandfather was the French painter Albert Benois, pioneering watercolorist in Russia and brother of the stage designer Alexander Benois.
		Alexander soon began to improvise at one of the family's two pianos, but, as he said, "I never dared to touch a piano in the presence of my father for fear of disturbing him." His mother, however, encouraged his initial efforts at composition.
		Alexander finished his studies in Paris (composition with Paul Vidal, piano with Isidore Philipp), saw a sizable number of his early pieces published, and began an international career as a composer- pianist.
	www.tcherepnin.com /alex/bio_alex.htm (1502 words)

	Benoit: Theatre in a Book
		Alexander Benois, who wrote the text, designed the book's format and created the illustrations, is regarded today as a master of all three.
		Alexander Benois learned the libretto by heart to be able to comment on what was happening on stage from his seat behind the girls.
		Alexander Benois depicts realistic book drops such as forests and fields, hills and valleys, seas and lakes under low grayish northern skies that are familiar to his children.
	www.new-worlds.org /art/mm/essays/pages/benois.html (1195 words)

	BENOIS FAMILY MUSEUM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		lbert Nikolayevitch Benois (1852- 1936), the elder son of Nikolai L. Benois, was famed as a water-colourist.
		Alexander A. Benois, pseudonym Konsky, (1852- 1928), as well as his cousin Albert N. Benois, won recognition by his gently lyrical water-colours.
		The son of Alexander Benois-Konsky, Albert A. (1880-1960), an architect and water-colourist, was celebrated for the construction of the St. Jenevieve de Bois Church near Paris.
	www.peterhof.org /museums/benois (1333 words)

	The Tcherepnin Society Website - Welcome!
		Our particular model for activity is the multifaceted career that earned Alexander Tcherepnin the sobriquet "Musical Citizen of the World." A superlative composer, a lifelong pioneer in new musical techniques, and a dedicated educator, he was also an enthusiastic internationalist whose fascination with folk idioms brought him through Eurasian culture to China and Japan.
		We subsidize international concertizing by musicians who aim at Alexander and Ivan Tcherepnin's multicultural reach, and also underwrite educational travel and study programs that enable young musicians of all nations to immerse themselves in musical traditions radically different from those in their homelands.
		Alexander Tcherepnin's view of music as a moral force that breaks down artificial barriers between peoples has a special relevance in our own troubled times.
	www.tcherepnin.com (439 words)

	NATIVE PETERSBURG PAINTERS ON THE CITY AT THE EVE OF THE 20TH CENTURY
		Later on Benois would easily imagine what the Bolshoi Theatre looked before his grandfather rebuilt it, that was, in the days of the Petersburg flood described by Pushkin in his poem "The Bronze Horseman".
		Benois A. Illustration to A. Pushkin poem "The Bronze Horseman" 1916.
		Benois thought that Peter the Great, as he founded Petersburg in May, was mesmerized by such phenomenon unknown in Central Russia.
	www.vor.ru /SanktPeterburg/SanktPeterburg004_eng.html (2032 words)

	Ballet (music) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Drigo's simple yet wonderfully melodious and well orchestrated music for this work was hailed as a masterpiece, even prompting praise from such artists as Tchaikovsky and Alexander Benois.
		In 1888 Vsevolozhsky commissioned the composer Mikhail Ivanov, a former classmate of Tchaikovsky's at the Moscow Conservatory, to score music for Petipa's Grand Ballet set in ancient Rome The Vestal, which proved to be a great success.
		One of the first ones, who put ballets not designed for the music on the scene, was Alexander Gorsky.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ballet_(music) (517 words)

	Alexander Benois (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Alexander Benois, a founder member of the World of Art group, inadvertantly established the Ballets Russes.
		By suggesting the staging of ballet in Paris Diaghilev's Ballet Russes was born.
		Out of the early Ballets Russes designers or indeed them all Benois' designs are the most sober in form, defiantly atmospheric and theatrically classical against novelties applied to create an effect.
	www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk /MultimediaStudentProjects/00-01/9705226m/mmcourse/project/gonch.project/alexander_benois.htm (96 words)

	Designs for the Dance
		With Diaghilev and Alexander Benois, Bakst formed the World of Art group in Russia and published an influential art magazine.
		Costume designs by Alexander Benois for an artisan disguised as a crow and for a monster in Stravinsky's Petrouchka, premiered by the Ballets Russes in 1911.
		Benois brought to the theater vivid color, inventive stage magic, and fantastic imagery.
	www.harvard-magazine.com /on-line/070482.html (1052 words)

	Pravda.RU:Nominees for Benois Ballet Prize Announced (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		According to the organisers -- the Benois Centre, the Bolshoi Theatre and the Russian Culture Ministry - this year the prestigious contest is displaying an expanded geography.
		The "Benois de la dance" prize was established by the International Union of Choreographers in 1991.
		The prize is named after Alexander Benois (1870-1960), an outstanding figure, whose creative activity combined music, theatre and scenery art.
	newsfromrussia.com /culture/2003/04/02/45478_.html (225 words)

	NIKOLAY and ALEXANDER CHEREPNIN by Gregor Tassie - Feb 2005 MusicWeb-International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		It was Diaghilev’s enthusiasm for the ballet that led to Cherepnin being appointed resident composer and conductor for the Saisons Russes.
		Alexander associated with a group of young European composers: Alexander Tansman, Bohuslav Martinů and Marcel Mihalovic and to a degree, Arthur Honegger.
		Alexander Cherepnin, nevertheless represented Exiled Russia and was hence forever subject to diverse cultures: French, Georgian, American and Chinese.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2005/Feb05/Cherepnin_Tassie.htm (5645 words)

	Spencer Research Library \|\| University of Kansas
		Alexander Benois, from whose private library our copy comes, wrote part of the text.
		The art of Grigorev is said to be rather close to the work of later German expressionists such as Otto Dix and George Grosz, and he was one of the first Russian artists to have an exhibition in the U.S. after the war, a successful one at that, at the Brooklyn Museum.
		Benois felt that Petersburg's architecture was not derivative, but rather was unique within the tradition of neo-Classicism and that Petersburg itself should become the subject of Russian art, that it was not inimical to native Russian styles.
	spencer.lib.ku.edu /exhibits/stpete/KSRL_FrostedWindows/ImageDetail.cfm?CID=3&StartRow=6 (208 words)

	Ballets Russes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The dancers and choreographers associated with it included George Balanchine, Mathilde Kschessinska, Michel Fokine, Tamara Karsavina, Serge Lifar, Alicia Markova, Léonide Massine, Vaslav Nijinsky, Anna Pavlova, Ida Rubinstein and Lydia Lopokova.
		Designers included Bakst, Benois, Braque, Picasso, Bilibin, Tchelitchev, and Utrillo.
		Composers included Debussy, Milhaud, Poulenc, Prokofiev, Ravel, Satie, Respighi, Richard Strauss, and, most notably, Igor Stravinsky, whom Diaghilev spotted when he was virtually unknown and whose career he launched.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ballets_Russes (330 words)

	ArtRoots.com - For the Love of Fine Art
		Her father, Yevgeny Lansere, was a well-known sculptor, and her mother, who was related to Alexander Benois, was good at drawing.
		Alexander Benois wrote about the portrait: 'A young woman lives in a remote country area...
		When in 1916 Alexander Benois was commissioned to decorate the Kazan Station in Moscow, he invited Yevgeny Lansere, Boris Kustodiev, Mstislav Dobuzhinsky and Zinaida Serebryakova to help him.
	artroots.com /ra/bio/serebryakova/zinaidaserebryakovabio.htm (1079 words)

	Jordan College of Fine Arts - Ballet Russe Drop Collection
		Alexander Benois designed a brand new decor for the occasion, and getting his designs to America was in itself somewhat of a caper story, as Benois was living at the time in occupied Paris and any large mailing from there was most suspect!
		The Nutcracker became so popular that it remained in the Ballet Russe repertoire for almost the entirety of the company's existence, from 1940 to 1962, with a short hiatus in 1953 when it was not performed.
		Reproduction, including downloading of Benois works is prohibited by copyright laws and international conventions without the express written permission of Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
	www.butler.edu /dance/da_br_benoisnutz.html (420 words)

	BU Today \| University Headlines \| Alexander Benois discovered
		Winestein explored the BPL’s Benois collection for more than a year, between preparing and presenting papers and earning dual bachelor’s degrees, in painting and in art history.
		“Benois is best known for his [costume and set] designs, especially for ballet productions at the Ballets Russes in Paris,” says Winestein.
		Benois, Winestein says, has inspired her with his own dedication to very different disciplines.
	www.bu.edu /phpbin/news-cms/news/?dept=4&id=37173&template=4 (617 words)

	Benois Albert (Aleksandrovith) - Art prints on canvas - agniart.ru
		Albert Benois is a little-known in Russia architect and artist; he is the representative of a dynasty given a line of the remarkable figures of art.
		The history of a Benois dynasty in Russia began in 1794, when from France a confectioner Lui Jul Benois arrived at Russia (1770-1822).
		He was working at a courtyard of Pavel I. The Albert Benois father was an aquarellist Alexander Benois (Konskyi).
	www.agniart.ru /eng/folder-13251~Art-prints-on-canvas~Benois-Albert-Aleksandrovith (138 words)

	Ballet - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Jacques Offenbach, Igor Stravinsky, Sergei Prokofiev, Léo Delibes, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Alexander Glazunov, Reinhold Glière, Pugni
		Léon Bakst, Alexandre Benois, Christian Bérard, Georges Braque, Marc Chagall, John Craxton, Salvador Dalí, André Derain, Barbara Karinska, Barry Kay, Pablo Picasso, Pavel Tchelitchev, Maurice Utrillo
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	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/b/a/l/Ballet.html (993 words)

	Constantin Somov. Biography. - Olga's Gallery
		Since his childhood Somov was a friend of Alexander Benois; during their students’ years they often gathered together in the house of Benois, there Somov got acquainted with Sergei Dyagilev, future theatre interprener, and Lev Bakst.
		The “gallant” 18th century was admired in Benois’ circle.
		In autumn of 1897 he left Academy and went to Paris, where his friends, Benois, Lanceray, Bakst, Ober, Ostroumova had already left for.
	www.abcgallery.com /S/somov/somovbio.html (1212 words)

	Benois - new and used books
		The first volume of a revived series initiated in 1901 by Alexander Benois publishes works by Rokotov, Tropinin, Shchedrin, Repin, Vrubel, Popova, and Malevich; icons of the Siberian school and examples of Russian applied arts.
		Approximately 25 mm x 15 mm of the SURFACE of the bottom 35 mm of the back of the jacket has been removed, obliterating the "D" at the end of the publisher's title "Putnam & Co. Ltd", and most of the "W" and all of the "C.1" at the end of its address.
		Benois, Alexandre - Reminiscences of the Russian Ballet: Translated By Mary Britnieva
	www.isbn.pl /A-BENOIS (672 words)

	Leonardo Da Vinci: Last Supper, picture, painting, Mona Lisa, drawing, invention, art, notebook, flying machine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In 1478 Leonardo set up his own studio and his first major commission was for an altar-piece for the Chapel of Saint Bernard in Florence, but it was--as became characteristic of Leonardo--never completed.
		The Benois Madonna, a painting of the Virgin and baby Jesus, comes from this same period.
		Leonardo was taken on not for his artistic abilities, but as chief architect and engineer to supervise the fortification of central Italy's papal territories, and his work often took Leonardo away from Florence, to Urbino and other cities in central Italy.
	www.leonardodavinci.ws /leonardo-da-vinci (4847 words)

	MAIL
		In 1894 Benois received a law degree from the St. Petersburg University and from 1896 till 1899 lived in France.
		Benois' international fame rests on his stage designs; he fused in them the traditional Russian folk elements with the French Rococo style.
		Theatrical spectacle for Benois was a fanciful invention, a stage magic, and a mirage.
	www.worldartcelebritiesjournal3.netfirms.com /mail.htm (3055 words)

	The State Russian Museum. collections.
		Although the selection of works before the revolution was often hampered by the conservative tastes of museum officialdom, the collection nevertheless grew in breadth thanks to the efforts of Alexander Benois, Albert Benois, Igor Grabar and Pyotr Neradovsky.
		The museum acquired Isaac Brodsky's Parade, Fyodor Bogorodsky's Homeless Waifs, landscapes and portraits by Sergei Gerasimov and canvases by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin and Alexander Samokhvalov.
		One of the most important events in the post-war history of the Russian Museum was the opening of a permanent exhibition of Soviet art in the Benois Wing.
	www.rusmuseum.ru /eng/collections/paintings/xix-xx (644 words)

	www.rian.ru
		The contest itself, the introduction of the members of the international jury and the presentation of statuettes by Igor Ustinov, a great-grandson of Alexander Benois, will take place on April 26.
		The organizers of the ceremony promise a minimum of speeches and a maximum of dances.
		The concert will be crowned by the Moscow premiere of the "Bolero" by Maurice Ravel, staged by Alexei Ratmansky.
	en.rian.ru /science/20050421/39717970-print.html (353 words)

	John Singer Sargent's Vaslav Nijinsky in Le Pavillon d' Armide
		In 1909 he went to Paris to perform in "Le Pavillon d' Armide" designed and staged by Alexander Benois.
		In honour and celibration of King George V's Coronation, which took place June 22, 1911, the Marchioness of Ripon brought Diaghilev's Ballet Russes to London.
		It is a ballet in three scenes by Alexander Benois, based on a short story by Theophile Gautier.
	www.jssgallery.org /Paintings/Mugs/Vaslav_Nijinsky_in_Le_Pavillon.htm (154 words)

	Azbuka (Alphabet) by Alexander Benois poster and print from Zazzle.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Originally published in 1904 by “World of Art” artist Alexandre Benois (1870-1960), the "Alphabet in Pictures" represents the peak of book design in pre-revolutionary Russia.
		Each letter is illustrated by a scene showing aristocratic childhood in all of its comfortable domesticity and ornamental decadence.
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	www.zazzle.com /product/228018621982582842 (186 words)

	Inventor Leonardo da Vinci
		Other works ascribed to his youth are the so-called Benois Madonna (1478?, Hermitage, Saint Petersburg), the portrait Ginevra de' Benci (1474?, National Gallery, Washington, D.C.), and the unfinished Saint Jerome (1481?, Pinacoteca, Vatican).
		In December 1499, however, the Sforza family was driven from Milan by French forces; Leonardo left the statue unfinished (it was destroyed by French archers, who used the terra cotta model as a target) and he returned to Florence in 1500.
		In 1502 Leonardo entered the service of Cesare Borgia, duke of Romagna and son and chief general of Pope Alexander VI.
	www.ideafinder.com /history/inventors/davinci.htm (2555 words)

	Leading architects
		The father of the artist Alexander Benois and the architect Leonty Benois.
		Until 1785 he was a serf of Count Alexander Stroganov, though he studied in Switzerland and France.
		Apart from St. Isaac’s Cathedral, he constructed the Alexander Column and the Gagarin and Lobanov-Rostovsky houses, as well as his own house on the Moika River.
	www.st-petersburg.ru /en/about/architecture/architects (1367 words)

	Biography of Ivan Tcherepnin
		On Tuesday evening, October 26, 2004, The Tcherepnin Society presented pianist Stephen Gosling in a commemorative recital, Alexander Tcherepnin and his Students, in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, New York City.
		The program featured a pair of Alexander Tcherepnin’s keyboard masterpieces from two different periods, the 1920s and 1950s, and music by five Tcherepnin students who went on to enjoy significant composing careers: Robert Muczynski, John Downey, Phillip Ramey, Gloria Coates and, of course, Alexander’s son, the late Ivan Tcherepnin.
		Many listeners were struck by both the quality and the variety of music: each of the students displayed a striking personal idiom unlike any of the others, and the result was a broad spectrum of twentieth century styles.
	www.tcherepnin.org /news_archive/news_2004.htm (531 words)

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