Alexander Nikolayevich Tcherepnin (18991977) was a Russian-American composer, pianist and music theorist, son of composer and conductor Nicolas Tcherepnin. Alexander is the father of composers and (inventor of Serge Modular synthesizer), and grandfather of electronic composers and musicians and . Tcherepnin studied at the St. Petersburg and Tbilisi Conservatories, and among his teachers were composers and pianist . After his family moved to France in 1921, Alexander finished his studies in Paris with composer and pianist , head of the piano department at the Paris Conservatoire. Alexander worked closely with the Parisian composers school, namely , , and . He began yearly visits to the USA in 1926 and made several extended trips to China and Japan between 1934 and 1937. Tcherepnin worked with , , , Kō Bunya, and , and established a publishing house in Tokyo to promote their music. While in China, he met the Chinese pianist Lee Hsien Ming (19151991), and the two later married in Europe. They had three sons together: Peter, Serge and Ivan. In 1948, they relocated to the United States and settled in Chicago, where Alexander taught composition at (194964). His students there included , , , and . premiered his second symphony with conducting. In 1967, Alexander toured in USSR and gave concerts in Moscow, Leningrad and Tbilisi.

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