Background
YAKOVLEV, Vasiliy was born on September 19, 1880 in Moscow.
YAKOVLEV, Vasiliy was born on September 19, 1880 in Moscow.
1908 graduate Military Engineer Academy. Studied music under Associate of Arts Il’inskiy in Moscow and North.A. Sokolov in Saint St. Petersburg.
1905 began musical and lit career. Worked for: State Theaters Board, People's Commissariat of Education. Bolshoy Theater; State Academy of Arts.
Moscow Conservatory; Tchaikovsky Museum Center, et cetera Wrote several works on history of Russian music, especially musical theater. Did studies of Tchaikovsky, Moussorgsky, Taneyev and Rachmaninov.
Traced connections between music and lit in works of Pushkin and Ostrovskiy and wrote studies of such older composers as South.N. Vasilenko, and Armed Forces Gedike.