Viktor M. Belyaev

Born in 1888 in Nizhne-Uralsk. In 1906–1908 he studied at the Kharkiv College of Music of the IRMO, in 1909–1914—at St. Petersburg Con­servatory (class of practical composition of A. K. Lya­dov). From 1923—lecturer at the Mos­cow Conservatory, in 1941–1943—lecturer at the Tashkent Institute of Art Studies, since 1942— at the Leningrad Conservatory. The author of research in the field of Russian musical paleo­graphy (“Monuments of Old Russian Musical Writing,” 1962; “On Musical Folklore and An­cient Writing,” 1971 and others), and ethnography (edited collections of folk songs by V. F. Trutov­sky, N. A. L’vov—I. Prach, N. M. Lo­patin and V. P. Prokunin and others). Holder of the Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1946), the medal “For Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945” and “In Commemoration of the 800th Anni­versary of Moscow.”