Alexander Ilyinsky

[2] He returned to Russia in 1885, graduated from the St Petersburg Conservatory[2] and taught at the Moscow Philharmonic Society School of Music and Drama.

[1][2] His students included Vasily Kalinnikov, Anatoly Nikolayevich Alexandrov, Nikolai Roslavets, Elena Stanekaite-Laumyanskene, and the Finnish composer Väinö Raitio.

[3] His major work, the 4-act opera The Fountain of Bakhchisaray, to a libretto based on Alexander Pushkin's poem, was produced in Moscow in 1911.

[4] He also wrote a symphony, a Concert Overture,[1] a string quartet, three orchestral suites, a set of orchestral Croatian Dances, a symphonic movement called Psyche,[1] two cantatas for female chorus and orchestra (Strekoza (The Dragonfly) and Rusalka), incidental music to Sophocles' Oedipus Rex and Philoctetes, and to Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy's Tsar Fiodor Ioannovich, piano pieces, church music, songs, etc.

Orgy of the Spirits, an excerpt from The Fountain of Bakhchisaray, was used in the scores of the film East of Java (1935)[6] and the adventure serials Tim Tyler's Luck (1937) and Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars (1938).