Sergey Taneyev,Cantata “John of Damascus“

Taneyev studied composition with Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and piano with Nikolay Rubinstein. In 1878 he interrupted his career as a pianist to succeed Tchaikovsky as professor of harmony (and later piano and composition) at the Moscow Conservatory, where he was director from 1885 to 1889. In 1905 he resigned in protest at measures against the threatened revolution and resumed his career as pianist and composer. In 1909, after 20 years of work, he completed his two-volume study of counterpoint in the strict