Allemanov, Dmitry Vasil'yevich

Allemanov [Alimánuhff], Dmitry Vasil'yevich (10–22/11–3–1867, Buzuluk, Orenburg distr.; ?, ?). Comp. and researcher of church music. Studied in M. with Arnol'd and V. S. Orlov (1888), then taught voice in a M. seminary (from 1904). Comp. many sacred works and wrote books on the theory and history of Russian church music, incl. History of Russian Church Singing (2 vols., 1911, 1914). Bibliography: Yu. Keldysh, ed.: Muzykal'naya entsiklopediya [Soviet Encyclopedia of Music] (Moscow, 1973)