Background
METALLOV, Vasiliy was born in 1862.
Musical historian and theoretician
METALLOV, Vasiliy was born in 1862.
Graduate Moscow Theological Academy.
From 1901 professor, Chair of the History of Ancient Russian Music, Moscow Conservatory. Professor, Moscow Archeological Institute. After 1917 October Revol member, State Academy of Arts.
Specialist in ancient Russian standard or hook notation. Expounded this system in Azbukva kryukovogo peniya (The American Broadcasting Company of Hook Singing) (1899) and outlined its history in the paleographic atlas Russkaya simiografiya (Russian Simiography) (1912).