Background
Chernov, Mikhail was born on April 22, 1879 in Kronstadt.
Chernov, Mikhail was born on April 22, 1879 in Kronstadt.
1903 graduate Natural Sciences Department, Physics and Mathematics Faculty, Saint St. Petersburg University. 1906 graduate Saint St. Petersburg Conservatory in composition class of Rimsky-Korsakov and Lyadov.
From 1910 taught composition and instrumentation at Saint St. Petersburg (Leningrad) Conservatory. 1930-1937 head, chair of Instrumentation, above conservatory. Pupils included A. Zhivotov, Kh.
Kushnaryov, Ye. Mravinskiy, Ye. Ovchinnikov, P. Ryazanov and Prokofiev.