Asaf'yev [Asáfyiff] (Assafiev), Boris Vladimirovich[pen name Igor' Glebov] (7–17/29–1884, P.; 1–27–1949, M.). Musicologist and comp. Grad. 1910 from the P. Cons., where he was a pupil of A. K. Lyadov (comp.) and N. Rimsky-Korsakov (orchestration). Asaf'yev's role in the development of Russian music is somewhat perplexing. On the one hand, he was a brilliant musicologist and theorist and a talented, albeit traditional, composer, who could speak very eloquently in defense of creative freedom: he…