Education
Moscow Conservatory.
Moscow Conservatory.
A brother of the composers Georgi Conus and Julius Conus, he studied together with Sergei Rachmaninoff in Anton Arensky"s advanced composition class and served as chief professor of piano at the Moscow Conservatory until 1918. Leaving the Soviet Union for Paris in 1921, he subsequently taught at the city"s Russian Conservatory, before finally moving to the United States in 1935. He taught in Cincinnati until his death at the age of 73.