Nicolai Tcherepnin

Tcherepnin, Nicolai (b St Petersburg, 15 May 1873, d Issy-les-Moulineaux, 26 June 1945).Russian composer. He was conductor of the Ballets Russes de Diaghilev from 1909 to 1914 and wrote the music for several ballets, including Fokine's Le Pavillon d'Armide (St Petersburg, 1907), Cléopâtre (Diaghilev, 1909), and Narcisse (Diaghilev, 1912). For Pavlova he wrote Dionysus (1922), Russian Fairy Tale (1923), and The Romance of a Mummy (1924). For Mordkin he wrote The Goldfish (1937). He was the father of Alexander Tcherepnin (b 1899, d 1977), who wrote the music for Petit's Déjeuner sur l'herbe (1945), Lifar's Chota Roustaveli (1946), and Charrat's La Femme et son ombre (1948).