Haieff, Alexei
(*1914)
Haieff, Alexei (Aleksey Vasil'yevich) (8–25–1914, Blagoveshchensk, Siberia). Was educated in Harbin, Manchuria, then immigrated with his family to the United States (1931), where he became a friend of Rachmaninoff and Stravinsky and acquired citizenship in 1939. Studied with Goldmark, Jacobi, Wagenaar, and Ziloti (Siloti) at the Juilliard School (1934–38) and with N. Boulanger in Cambridge, MA (1938–39), and Paris. Later taught at the Amer. Acad. in Rome (1952–53, 1958–59); SUNY, Buffalo (1962…