Anton Stepanovich Arensky (12 July 1861, Novgorod – 25 February, 1906 Perkijarvi, Finland), was a Russian Romantic composer and music professor. Arensky had composed a number of songs and piano pieces by age nine. His father and mother moved to St. Petersburg in 1879, where he studied composition at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, as a student of Rimsky-Korsakov. After graduation in 1882 he became a professor at the Moscow Conservatory. Among his students were Scriabin, Rachmaninoff and Gretchaninov. Read more on Last.fm