Anton Stepanovich Arensky () (born July 12, 1861 in Novgorod, Russia ? died February 25, 1906 in Perkijarvi, Finland), was a Russian composer of Romantic classical music, a pianist and a professor of music. Arensky was musically precocious and composed a number of songs and piano pieces by age nine. With his father and mother, he moved to St. Petersburg in 1879, where he studied composition at the St. Petersburg Conservatory with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. After graduating from the St. Petersburg Conservatory in 1882, Arensky became a professor at the Moscow Conservatory. Among his students there were Alexander Scriabin, Sergei Rachmaninoff and Alexander Gretchaninov. In 1895 Arensky returned to St. Petersburg as the director of the Imperial Choir, a post for which he had been recommended by Mily Balakirev. Arensky retired from this position in 1901, spending his remaining time as a pianist, conductor, and composer. Arensky die