Semyon Bogatyrev

Semyon Semyonovich Bogatyrev (15 February 189031 December 1960) was a Soviet and Russian musicologist and composer.

He is best known in the West for his completion of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Symphony in E-flat, which he abandoned while incomplete in 1892. In 1893 Tchaikovsky used the first movement as source material for his Piano Concerto No. 3 in E-flat, Op. 75. In 1897, Sergei Taneyev used the remaining movements as source for the Andante and Finale for piano and orchestra, which was published as Tchaikovsky's Op. posth. 79.

Between 1951 and 1955, Bogatyrev reconstructed the original Symphony in E-flat as he believed Tchaikovsky might have done had he not become disillusioned with it, and published it as the "Symphony No. 7 in E-flat". It was first performed in Moscow in 1957.

He also wrote a number of his own compositions.

1890 births

1960 deaths

20th-century composers

20th-century musicologists

20th-century Russian male musicians

Academic staff of Moscow Conservatory

National University of Kharkiv alumni

Saint Petersburg Conservatory alumni

Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour

Russian male composers

Russian music educators

Russian musicologists

Soviet male composers

Soviet music educators

Soviet musicologists