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Alexei Vladimirovich Stanchinsky (Russian: Алексе́й Влади́мирович Станчи́нский; 9 March/21 March (OS) 1888, Obolsunovo, Ivanovo - 25 September/6 October (OS) 1914, near Logachevo, Kaluga), was a Russian composer. He was a student at the Moscow Conservatory, where his teachers included Nikolai Zhilyayev and Sergei Taneyev. He was recognized as an outstanding talent but suffered from mental problems and was several times confined in a psychiatric clinic. He drowned under mysterious circumstances, perhaps suicide, on 25 September/6 October (OS) 1914. He tore up much of his work in fits of hallucination and rage. Thankfully, however, friends and colleagues managed to reconstruct many...