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Vasilii Prokunin

Russian composer (b. 16/28 January 1848 in Sosnovka, near Tambov; d. 1/14 May 1910), born Vasilii Pavlovich Prokunin (Василий Павлович Прокунин, Vasilij Pavlovič Prokunin, Vasily Pavlovich Prokunin).

Prokunin is best remembered for his collections of Russian folk songs, which he began to compile while he was in Tchaikovsky's class at the Moscow Conservatory in the early 1870s. Tchaikovsky revised and edited Prokunin's first collection of 65 Russian Folk Songs in 1872 and 1873.

Tchaikovsky's arrangements of works by Vasilii Prokunin:

• 65 Russian Folk Songs, TH 183 (1872–73) — collected by Prokunin, revised and edited by Tchaikovsky