Nikolay Sergeyevich Zhilyayev (, Nikolaj Sergejevič Žiljajev; 18 November (N.S.) 1881 – 20 January 1938), was a musicologist, and the teacher of several 20th-century composers. He was a victim of political repression in the Soviet Union. He was a pupil of Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov and Sergei Taneyev at the Moscow Conservatory in around 1904. He went on to teach there himself. His pupils included the composers Yevgeny Golubev, Aram Khachaturian, Lev Knipper, Alexei Fedorovich Kozlovsky, Alexei Vladimirovich Stanchinsky, Anatoly Nikolayevich Alexandrov and Samuil Evgenyevich Feinberg. He was a member of the Russian Academy of Art-Sciences and of the State Institute of Musical Science. He wrote many essays. Death Zhilyayev was shot shortly after his arrest during Joseph Stalin's state repression known as the Great Terror. References Mikhail Mishchenko: 'Zhilyayev, Nikolay Sergeyevich', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 2 June 2007), <http://www.grovemusic.com> A. Eaglefield-Hull (ed), A Dictionary of Modern Music and Musicians (Dent, London 1924) External links FIENBERG In Sound and Thought ARBITER 146 (AtOr): Classical CD Reviews- June 2006 MusicWeb-International at www.musicweb-international.com. 1881 births 1938 deaths Musicologists from the Russian Empire Musicians from Kursk Great Purge victims from Russia Writers from Kursk Soviet musicologists