Simon, Antoine (Antony Yulievich) (1850–1916)

French composer and conductor. He studied at the Paris Conservatory and settled at Moscow in 1871, where he became conductor of the Théâtre-Bouffe. In the 1890s he became piano professor at the Philharmonic Music School, and was superintendent of the orchestra of the Imperial theatres.

Works Stage works operas Rolla (1892), The Song of Love Triumphant (after Turgenev, 1897), The Fishers (after Hugo, 1899); mimed drama Esmeralda (after Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, 1902); ballets The Stars and Living Flowers.

Other works incidental music for Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice; mass; concertos for piano and for clarinet; string quartets; songs.