Count Alexander Sheremetiev (Composer)
Born: 11th March 1859, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Died: 18th May 1931, Paris, France
Nationality: Russian
Count Aleksandr Dmitriyevich Sheremetev was a Russian composer, conductor and entrepreneur. He founded his own private symphony orchestra in 1882, and from 1898 organized public concerts in Saint Petersburg involving the orchestra and a choir he had inherited from his father, Dmitri Sheremetev. He also founded the Musical Historical Society in 1910, which gave free lecture recitals involving his orchestra and choir.
Sheremetev conducted the Russian premiere of Richard Wagner's Parsifal in a series of three concerts in 1906; his conducting on that occasion was described by the press as "primitive". This was followed by Sheremetev conducting the opera's first Russian staging on 21 December 1913 (according to the Russian Old Style calendar; 3 January 1914 according to the standard Western calendar), performed at the Hermitage Theatre before the Imperial Family, the diplomatic corps, representative members of the State Duma and senior government officials.
Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Sheremetev
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