Yuly Iogansen

Yuly Ivanovich Iogansen (Danish: Julius Ernst Christian Johannsen) was a Danish-born Russian and Danish music pedagogue and theorist who spent most of his professional life in Saint Petersburg. He became closely associated with the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, where he served as professor, inspector, and later director, earning a reputation as an able teacher and administrator.

He was born in Copenhagen on 28 February 1826 and graduated from a Copenhagen gymnasium in 1844. He studied piano from the age of nine and continued his musical education at the Leipzig Conservatory, studying piano with Ignaz Moscheles and composition with Felix Mendelssohn.

In 1848 (according to other sources, in 1856) he moved to Saint Petersburg. From 1866 he was professor of composition theory at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, initially teaching harmony and later also counterpoint. Between 1871 and 1891 he served as inspector of the conservatory, and from 1891 to 1897 he was its director.

During his directorship, in 1896, the conservatory moved to a new building, the former Bolshoi Theatre building reconstructed by the architect V. V. Nikolai. In the late 1860s and early 1870s, alongside teaching, he published music-critical articles in the newspaper St. Petersburger Zeitung and composed romances and works for vocal ensemble, choir, orchestra, and piano.

As a teacher he had many notable pupils, including Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Anatoly Lyadov. He wrote several romances and a large number of piano pieces; these compositions largely remained in manuscript. His textbook on strict counterpoint was published in Russia after his death, in accordance with his will, with translation from German and editing carried out by his student, the composer N. I. Kazanli.

Iogansen had six children, including the architect Wilhelm and a daughter, Lucy, who married Heinrich van Gilse van der Pals. He died on 14 July 1904 in Lohja-Paloniemi in Finland (Nyland Governorate) and was buried in Saint Petersburg at the Novodevichy Cemetery.

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