Background
Ziloty Alexander Ilyich was born on the 27 of September, 1863 in Moscow, Russian Federation.
conductor pianist teacher musical figure
Ziloty Alexander Ilyich was born on the 27 of September, 1863 in Moscow, Russian Federation.
He graduated from the Moscow Conservatory (1881, a piano student of Nikolai Grigorievich Rubinstein, in composition of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky), he was improving his skills with the help of Ferenz Liszt in Weimar (1883-1886).
Founder of the "Ferenz. Liszt Society in Leipzig" (1885).
In 1888-1891 he was a Professor at the Moscow Conservatory. He organized and held "Concerts of Ziloti" (1903-1917) in Saint Petersburg, as well as public free concerts (1915-1917), in which he invited Gavriil Ivanovich Romanovsky to participate.
Since 1922 he lived in the United States. He was a teacher of piano at Juiliard school.