Feodor Feodorovich Koenemann (Russian: Фёдор Фёдорович Кёнеман; sometimes transliterated as Fyodor Keneman) (Moscow, Russia, 20 April [O.S.
Feodor Koenemann was trained from 1892 to 1897 at the Moscow Conservatory under Nikolay Zverev (1892–1895, piano), Vasily Safonov (1895–1897, piano), Anton Arensky, Sergei Taneyev and Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov (1897, Music Theory).
He was graduated in 1897 with the Great Gold Medal with two specialities – Pianist and Music theory.
He also organized in Astrakhan the city chorus and the symphony orchestra, finding musicians among the music teachers, students and the military bands.
Koenemann started a twenty-four-year collaboration with Chaliapin, both as an accompanist and arranger; his arrangement of The Volga Boatmen's Song made the song well-known abroad after Chaliapin's emigration.