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Il'ia SlatinIl'ia Il'ich Slatin (Илья Ильич Слатин) was a Russian conductor, pianist and teacher. Born 7/19 July 1845 at Belgorod (near Kursk) Slatin enrolled at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory in 1863, where over the next six years he studied music theory with Nikolai Zaremba, and piano with Aleksandr Dreishtok (1818-1869). In 1869 he moved to Berlin, where he received further lessons in piano from Theodor Kuliak (1818-1882) and in composition from Richard Würst. He made his debut as conductor in Dresden two years later with symphonic concerts of Russian music. In 1871 he returned to Russia, and with the assistance from Anton Rubinstein he founded the Kha'kov (Kharkiv) branch of the Russian Musical Society (RMS), of which he was the first director. Slatin also founded the Kha'kov Music school in 1883, which developed from the music classes started by the RMS. As well as being a firm advocate and conductor of Tchaikovsky's music, Slatin also organised the composer's highly successful conducting tour of Kharkov in 1893. Il'ia Slatin died in Kharkov on 13 April 1931, aged 85. |