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Mitrofan Petrovich Beliaev

Митрофан Петрович Беляев

Russian music publisher. Born 10/22 September 1836 in Saint Petersburg, the son of Petr Abramovich BELIAEV, a wealthy timber merchant.

Beliaev was educated at the German-speaking Reform School in Saint Petersburg until the age of 15, where he learnt the piano, violin and viola. Although he joined his father's timber business, he retained his musical inteersts, and was an active participant in amateur symphony concerts, eventually launching his own series of "Russian Symphony Concerts" and "Russian Quartet Evenings" in the capital. Tchaikovsky conducted his own works at a number of Russian Symphony Concerts during the late 1880s and early 1890s.

In 1885 Beliaev established a music publishing house ("M. P. Beliaeff") devoted to the works of Russian composers, based in Leipzig and Saint Petersburg. After Tchaikovsky's death, Beliaev published The Storm, Fatum, The Voevoda, and the Andante & Finale for piano and orchestra, under the posthumous opus numbers 76 to 79,

Mitrofan Beliaev died on 28 December 1903/10 January 1904 in Saint Petersburg, aged 67. His publishing house was eventually succeeded by C. F. Peters in Leipzig.