STANCHINSKY, ALEXEI VLADIMIROVICH  BIOGRAPHY

A pupil of Zhilayev and Taneyev at the Moscow Conservatory, Stanchinsky, a schizophrenic, later destroyed many of his earlier compositions, while composing only intermittently during the final years of his short life. Influenced at first by Mussorgsky and then by Skryabin, he left a series of interesting and experimental piano compositions that promised much.