Aleksey Ivanovich Kandinsky (24 February 1918 – 4 October 2000) was a Soviet musicologist who is known for his writings on contemporary Russian musical life and Russian music of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
[1][2] From 1935 to 1939 he studied at the Ippolitov-Ivanov College of Music in Moscow where he was a pupil of Vasily Nikolayevich Argamakov.
After serving in the Russian Army during World War II, he pursued graduate music studies under Yury Keldïsh at the Moscow Conservatory where he earned a master's degree in 1948 and a Doctorate in 1956.
[1] After earning his master's degree, Kandinsky became a lecturer at the Moscow Conservatory in 1948.
He became a full professor there in 1958 and served as the head of the music history department at the Moscow Conservatory from 1959 until 1992.