Ziloti [Zeelótee] (Siloti), Aleksandr Il'ich (10–9–1863, near Kharkov; 12–8–1945, NY). Ziloti had an important career as pianist, conductor, teacher, arranger, and advocate of new music. In recent times he has been recognized as a centrally influential leader in the generation of Russian music making before October 1917. His family sent him to M. at age eight to be a pupil in residence with pianist N. Zverev. Four years later he was at the M. Cons., where he studied composition and theory with…