Arseny Avraamov
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Russian composer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Arseny Mikhailovich Avraamov was an avant-garde Russian composer and music theorist. He studied at the music school of the Moscow Philharmonic Society, with private composition lessons from Sergey Taneyev. An avowed Communist, he refused to fight in World War I, and fled the country to work, among other things, as a circus artist. Returning in 1917, he was appointed Culture Minister for the People's Commissariat for Education. Allegedly, one of his first acts was to ask Vladimir Lenin if he could burn all the pianos in Russia.
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