Sats, Il'ya Aleksandrovich

Sats [Sats], Il'ya Aleksandrovich (4–18/30–1875, Chernobyl, Kiev distr.; 10–11/24–1912, M.). Attended the M. Cons. (1897–99), where he studied comp. with S. I. Taneyev and also vc. Taught in Irkutsk (1900–03) because of political repressions; later studied cond. at the Mus.-Dramatic Sch. of the M. Philh. Soc. In 1905 became music director of the M. Art Theater, for which he wrote incidental music to plays such as Andreyev's A Man's Life and Maeterlinck's Blue Bird. Also comp. works in an…