Vil'boa, Konstantin Petrovich
(1817–1882)
Vil'boa [Veelbaá] (Vil'bua, Villebois), Konstantin Petrovich (5–17/29–1817, P.; 7–4/16–1882, Warsaw). Cond. and comp. The son of a French family, Vil'boa received his education at the Second Cadet Corps in P., where he served as a choirmaster. He conducted the chorus and ball orchestra of the Life Guards of the Pavlovsk Regiment from 1853–54 and in 1856 took part in an expedition, with A. Ostrovsky and V. Engel'gardt, to collect folk songs along the Volga. During the second half of the 1860s…