Education
Moscow Conservatory.
Moscow Conservatory.
In addition to writing a biography on Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, he has penned seminal writings on the works of Mily Balakirev, Alexander Dargomyzhsky, and Sergei Rachmaninoff. In 1969 he was named a Meritorious Artist of the Russian Federation. Born in Moscow, Kandinsky is the grandson of artist Wassily Kandinsky.
From 1935-1939 he studied at the Ippolitov-Ivanov College of Music in Moscow where he was a pupil of Vasily Nikolayevich Argamakov.
After serving in the Russian Army during World World War II, he pursued graduate music studies under Yury Keldïsh at the Moscow Conservatory where he earned a master"s degree in 1948 and a Doctorate in 1956. His doctoral dissertation was on the operas of Rimsky-Korsakov.
After earning his master"s degree, Kandinsky became a lecturer at the Moscow Conservatory in 1948. He became a full professor there in 1958 and served as the head of the music history department at the Moscow Conservatory from 1959-1992.