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Aleksandr Diubiuk

Aleksandr Ivanovich Diubiuk (Александр Иванович Дюбюк), also known as Alexander Dubuque, was a Russian pianist, teacher and composer, born in Moscow on 20 February/3 March 1812.

He studied under John Field, and taught many eminent pupils himself, including Milii Balakirev, Nikolai Kashkin and Herman Laroche. From 1866 to 1872 he served as professor of piano at the Moscow Conservatory, working alongside Tchaikovsky. As well as composing numerous small piano pieces and romances, he published an important collection of folk-songs, and a book on The Technique of Piano Playing (Техника фортепианной игры).

Tchaikovsky's Mazurka de salon (the last of the Three Pieces for piano, Op. 9), written in 1868, was dedicated to Diubiuk. Tchaikovsky also made orchestral arrangements of Diubiuk's piano transcription of Elizaveta Tarnovskaia's romance I Remember All, and his polka Maria-Dagmar.

Aleksandr Diubiuk died in Moscow on 27 December 1897/8 January 1898, aged 85.