Alexander Gretchaninoff (October 25 1864 Moscow, – January 3 1956 New York) was a Russian Romantic composer, a student of Sergei Taneyev and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov known for his children's music, and also for his liturgical and other choral music. He left Russia in 1917 for London and Prague, and became an American citizen in the late 1940s.
He wrote five symphonies, the first premiered by Rimsky-Korsakov; four string quartets, two piano trios, sonatas for violin, cello, clarinet, piano and balalaika, several operas and much other music. Like Rebikoff, his position in the history of Russian music was mainly transitional, his earlier music belonging firmly in that earlier Romantic tradition while his later work is influenced by some of the streams that also affected Stravinsky and Prokofiev.
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