Leonid Sabaneyev

He wrote some early works, such as incidental music to King Oedipus (1889), a Funeral March in Memory of Beethoven,[1] two trios (including a Trio-Impromptu for violin, cello and piano, Op.

[1] He was both a conservative and a progressive; his ideas included a scale comprising 53 notes[3] and hoped to create a "Laboratory of the Exact Science of Music".

[1] Sabaneyev famously embarrassed himself in 1915 by publishing a scathing review of the premiere of Sergei Prokofiev's Scythian Suite – a performance that had actually been canceled at the last minute.

This prompted a response from Prokofiev stating that the supposed performance must have been a product of Sabaneyev's imagination, as the only copy of the score was in the composer's hands and thus the critic had not even been able to see it.

History of Russian Music was translated into German (1926) and received very positive reviews from critics such as Maurice Cauchie.