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Vladimir Rebikov (1866-1920)
Vladimir Rebikov is a founding figure among modern Russian musicians and a pioneer in the use of the whole-tone scale. He studied piano with his mother, and completed a course in linguistics before entering the Moscow Conservatory; there he studied music theory with Nikolai Klenovsky, a student of Tchaikovsky.Despite Rebikov's reputation as a composer of piano miniatures, musical theater would prove the all-consuming passion of his life; in fact, his compositional career began with his opera In the Stormin Odessa in 1894.
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In Odessa, Rebikov began to teach, and he is known to have taught at the Philharmonic School in Moscow, Kiev, and Kishinev by 1898. In 1898 - 1901 he traveled to Vienna and Berlin, bringing him into contact with music outside of Moscow, resulting in a crisis of confidence in his own work.
Rebikov felt that his music leaned far too heavily on salon tastes and the short pieces of Grieg and Tchaikovsky. Determined to make his own way, Re