Background
OSSOVSKIY, Aleksandr was born on March 19, 1871 in Kishinev.
Russian musicologist and music teacher
OSSOVSKIY, Aleksandr was born on March 19, 1871 in Kishinev.
1893 graduate Law Faculty, Moscow University. 1896-1898 studied under Rimsky-Korsakov at Saint St. Petersburg Conservatory.
1894 began work as music critic. Contributed to “Russkaya muzykal’naya gazeta”, newspaper “Slovo” and other periodicals. Edited and translated various theoretical works and memoirs.
1915-1916 instructor, from 1916 professor, Petrograd (Leningrad) Conservatory. 1943-1952 director, Leningrad Theater and Music Reserach Institute.
Correspondent member, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences from 1943. Communist Party member from 1945.