Vasily Kalinnikov

Kalinnikov's musical style was inspired by composers like Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov, and is notable for its expressive melodies and lush orchestration.

He played bassoon, timpani and violin in theater orchestras and supplemented his income working as a music copyist.

However, due to his worsening tuberculosis, Kalinnikov had to resign from his theatre appointments and move to the warmer southern climate of the Crimea.

He was survived by his widow[citation needed] and his brother, Viktor Kalinnikov, who composed choral music and taught at the Moscow Philharmonic Society School.

[2] Vasily Kalinnikov's reputation was established with his First Symphony, written between 1894 and 1895, which had great success when Alexander Vinogradsky conducted it at a Russian Musical Society concert in Kyiv on 20 February 1897.