Cherepnin, Aleksandr Nikolayevich

Cherepnin [Chiripnéen] (Tcherepnin, Tscherepine), Aleksandr Nikolayevich (1–8/21–1899, P.; 9–29–1977, Paris). Pianist and comp. Son of N. Cherepnin and father of I. and S. Cherepnin . As a child Aleksander Cherepnin took piano lessons from his mother in a home visited frequently by local artists and intellectuals. He wrote his first opera at 12; by 19 he had completed 14 piano sonatas, the 13th eventually published as the Sonatine romantique. In 1917 he studied briefly at the Petrograd Cons…