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Arsenii Koreshchenko

Arsenii Nikolaevich Koreshchenko (Арсений Николаевич Корещенко), was a Russian pianist and composer, born in Moscow on 6/18 December 1870.

A prodigious child, Koreshchenko was playing the at the age of three, and within another year had taken up composition. He became a student at the Moscow Conservatory in 1884, where he studied piano under Sergei Taneev and composition under Anton Arenskii. He graduated from the conservatory in 1891, and spent three years there as a teacher. While teaching at the Synod School and the Moscow Philharmonic Society's school of music and drama, he continued to perform as a conductor, solo pianist and accompanist, while writing copious review articles to the Moscow Register (Московские ведомости) newspaper.

Although he did much to champion the folk music of the Caucuses, in 1919 he settled at Kharkov (now Kharkiv) in the Ukraine, where the following year he became rector of the city's music academy.

Arsenii Koreshchenko died in Kharkov on 6 January 1921, aged 50.