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Aleksandr Ivanovich Dubuque

Александр Иванович Дюбюк

Russian pianist, teacher and composer, born on 20 February/3 March 1812 in Moscow.

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 Dubuque. Tchaikovsky also made orchestral arrangements of Dubuque's piano transcription of Elizaveta Tarnovskaia's romance I Remember All, and his polka Maria-Dagmar.

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