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Template:Emblem Count Aleksandr Dmitriyevich Sheremetev (11 March [O.S. 27 February] 1859 – 18 May 1931) was a Russian composer, conductor and entrepreneur. He founded his own private symphony orchestra in 1882, and from 1898 he organized public concerts in St. 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 1906.
On 10 June 1883 he married Marie Heyden (born 1863 in Reval), daughter of Governor-General of Finland count Frederick Heyden (1821–1900) and Elisabeth Zubov (1833–1894).
References
- Wagner & Russia, Rosamund Bartlett. Cambridge University Press, 1995. ISBN 0-521-03582-1
Notes
- Wagner & Russia by Rosamund Bartlett, p88
- Template:De icon Genealogy handbook of Baltic nobility