Theatre. At this post, he directed the Paris premiere of Rimsky-Korsakov's opera The Golden Cockerel. From 1905 to 1917, he was principal of the conservatory of St. Petersburg, where he taught conducting. In 1918 he was invited to take the post of director of the National Conservatory of Tbilisi, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Georgia. Following the Bolshevik takeover of Georgia in 1921, he moved to Paris and lived there for the rest of his life. While in France, he worked with Anna Pavlova and her ballet troupe as composer and conductor (1922–4) and made concert tours around Europe and the United States but abandoned his concert career in 1933 because of a deterioration in his hearing. In 1925 he founded the Russian Conservatory in Paris and served as its director for a number of years (1925–9 and 1938–45). In 1926 he became a member of the board of trustees of the Belyayev publishing house, where he later became president from 1937 until his death in 1945. He was the father of the composer and pianist Alexander Tcherepnin. Works Opera The Matchmaker (1930) Vanka the Steward (1933) Ballet Le Pavillon d'Armide (1907) Narcisse et Echo (1911) The Masque of the Red Death (1915) Bacchus (1922) A Magical Russian Fairytale (1923) The Romance of the Mummy (1924) Choral 2 Choruses (1899) The Song of Sappho (1899) The Descent of the Virgin Mary to Hell oratorio, 1934) Orchestral La princesse lointaine (prelude to a play of the same name by Edmond Rostand), Op. 4 (1896) Macbeth (after act 4, scene 1), Op. 12 (1902) From Land to Land (1903) Piano Concerto in C-sharp minor, Op. 30 (1905) Mar'ya Morevna (symphonic poem) (1909) The Enchanted Kingdom (1910) 6 Musical Illustrations to Pushkin's "Tale about the Fisherman and the Fish" (1917) Destiny (1938) Chamber music Lyrical Poem, for string quartet (1898) Melody, for violin and piano (1902) 5 Pieces for Piano (1904) 6 Horn Quartets (1910) The Alphabet in Pictures, for Piano (1910) Cadence fantastique, for Violin and Piano (1915) Orchestrations and completions Modest Mussorgsky: Sorochyntsi Fair (1923) Sokolovsky: The Miller-Wizard, Cheat and Matchmaker (1925) Family His son Alexander Tcherepnin (1899-1977), grandsons (son of Alexander) Ivan Tcherepnin (1943-1998) and Serge Tcherepnin, and great-grandsons (sons of Ivan) Sergei and Stefan Tcherepnin, are also composers. References Sources Tcherepnin, Nikolay by Christopher Palmer, in 'The New Grove Dictionary of Opera', ed. Stanley Sadie (London, 1992)