Alexei Vasilievich Haieff was an American composer of orchestral and choral works.
Education
In 1931 he went to the United States., where he studied with Rubin Goldmark and Frederick Jacobi at the Juilliard School of Music in New York City (1934-1938). In 1938-1939 he also studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris and in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Career
Born in Blagoveshchensk, in the Russian Far East, Haieff received his primary education at Harbin, Manchuria. He became a United States. citizen and held United States. citizenship for 55 years, until his death. He held a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1946 and again in 1949, and was a Fellow at the American Academy in Rome (1947-1948).
His Divertimento (1944) was choreographed by George Balanchine in 1947.
He was a professor at the University at Buffalo (1962-1968), and composer-in-residence at the University of Utah (1968-1970). Haieff"s notable students include Paul Ramsier.
He died in Rome, Italy, at the age of 80.