César Cui

✶January 18, 1835

†March 24, 1918

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About their life

César Antonovich Cui was a Russian composer and music critic, member of the Belyayev circle and The Five – a group of composers gathered by the idea of creating a specifically Russian type of music. As an officer of the Imperial Russian Army, he rose to the rank of engineer-general, taught fortifications in Russian military academies and wrote a number of monographs on the subject.

Russian composer and army officer

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Biography from the article César Cui on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.