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He was a student at the Moscow Conservatory , where his teachers included Nikolay Zhilyayev and Sergei Taneyev . He was recognized as an outstanding talent but suffered from mental problems and was several times confined in a psychiatric clinic. He drowned under mysterious circumstances, perhaps suicide, on 25 September /6 October ( OS ) 1914. Almost all Stanchinsky's surviving works are for Piano ; they include two Sonatas , ''Sketches'', and several Preludes . He attempted to combine Modality , complex Polyphony , and post-Romantic chromatic harmony in the manner of Scriabin . Despite his short life he made a considerable impression on his contemporaries, and though for a long time almost none of his music was published, his pieces circulated in manuscript. Among significant Russian piano composers Prokofiev (who wrote an article about Stanchinsky in 1913), Arthur Lourié , Anatoli Alexandrov , and Samuel Feinberg all acknowledged his influence. |
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