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Lev Eduardovich Konius

Лев Эдуардович Конюс

Russian pianist and teacher. Born in 1871, the youngest son of Eduard Konstantinovich KONIUS (1827-1902), a piano teacher and music critic.

Konius studied at the Moscow Conservatory in Anton Arenskii's advanced composition class, and in 1893 he assisted Tchaikovsky with the piano arrangement of his Symphony No. 6, while his older brother Iulii advised the composer on matters of violin techinique in the symphony.

In 1912 Lev Konius was appointed professor of piano at the conservatory in Moscow, where he also founded a piano school. He left Russia in 1920 for Paris, where he taught at the city's Russian Conservatory, before moving to the United States in 1935. He taught at Cincinatti Music College until his death in 1944, aged 73.