Klenovsky, Nikolai Semenovich (1853–1915)

Russian composer and conductor. He studied at the Moscow Conservatory, where Tchaikovsky was among his teachers, and conducted the premiere of the latter's Eugene Onegin. He was later conductor of the university orchestra and assistant conductor at the Imperial Opera. Together with Melgunov, he collected and edited folksongs. He was appointed director of the school of music at Tiflis in 1893 and assistant director of the Imperial Chapel at St Petersburg in 1902.

Works several ballets; incidental music to Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra and other plays; Georgian Liturgy for unaccompanied chorus; cantatas.