Ivan Alopeus
Russian military officer and educator (b. 11/23 May 1824 at Tsarskoye Selo; d. 6/19 Jun 1904 at Saint Petersburg), born Ivan Samoylovich Alopeus (Иван Самойловнч Алопеус).
A former artillery captain, Alopeus was a teacher (from 1852), inspector of pupils (from 1855), and eventually (from 1877) director of the Imperial School of Jurisprudence in Saint Petersburg. He was Tchaikovsky's class tutor in 1855, and had a reputation for being among the kindest and gentlest of the masters.
In 1885, Alopeus commissioned the Jurisprudence March and Jurists' Song from Tchaikovsky, to be performed as part of the schools fiftieth anniversary celebrations.
Correspondence with Ivan Alopeus
No letters from Tchaikovsky to his old tutor have survived, but 2 letters from Ivan Alopeus to the composer, both dating from 1885, are are preserved in the Tchaikovsky State Memorial Musical Museum-Reserve at Klin (a4, Nos. 13–14).
External Links
- Wikipedia (Russian)
