Anatoly Konstantinovich Lyadov (12 May 1855 – 28 August 1914) was a Russian composer, teacher and conductor. Lyadov was born in 1855 in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire, into a family of eminent Russian musicians. He was taught informally by his conductor step-father Konstantin Lyadov from 1860 to 1868, and then in 1870 entered the St. Petersburg Conservatory to study piano and violin. He taught at the St. Petersburg Conservatory from 1878, his pupils including Sergei Prokofiev, Nikolai Myaskovsky, Mikhail Gnesin, Lazare Saminsky, Lyubov Streicher, and Boris Asafyev.

Performed by:
The Symphony Orchestra of Russia
with Veronika Dudarova conducting