Биография автора
Viacheslav Karatygin (1875-1925) studied Natural sciences at St. Petersburg University, while taking lessons in music theory and composition from Nikolai Sokolov (1859-1922). From 1906, he was active as a critic in the journals “Zolotoye runo”, “Apollon”, “Teatr i iskusstvo”, “Severnye zapiski”, and the newspapers “Rech’”, “Nasha gazeta”, and “Sovremennoe slovo”. From 1915 he taught music history and theory at Evgenii Rapgof’s private school, and from 1916 at the Petrograd Conservatoire, where he was appointed permanent professor in 1919. He wrote essays on Skriabin, Schubert, Musorgskii, the singer Fedor Shaliapin, Wagner (particularly Parsifal), and Richard Strauss. He collaborated with the theatre historian Vsevolod Vsevolodskii-Gerngross, and was also a composer of piano pieces and incidental music.