Panchenko, Semyon Viktorovich
(1887–1937)
Panchenko [Pánchinkuh], Semyon Viktorovich (1887, Sudzhansk distr. [now Kursk distr.]; 1937, ?). Theorist, cond., pedagogue, and comp. Following study with A. K. Lyadov, taught in P., where he establ. his own mus. sch. in the early 1900s. Was one of the first to perf. Mahler and Bruckner in Russia. Later abandoned cond. to devote his time to comp. and to the reform church music. His comp. are interesting from a harmonic standpoint. Was closely associated with symbolists such as A. Blok. May…