Nicolas Slonimsky, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (died 1995)

Nicolas Slonimsky

Russian-born American musicologist (1894–1995)

Nicolas Slonimsky, born Nikolai Leonidovich Slonimskiy, was a Russian-born American musicologist, conductor, pianist, and composer. Best known for his writing and musical reference work, he wrote the Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns and the Lexicon of Musical Invective,…