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Nikolai Danilin (1878,
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–1945, Moscow) was a Russian choral conductor. Danilin graduated from the
Moscow Synodal School The Moscow Synodal School () and the associated Moscow Synodal Choir were the main centre of teaching for Russian Orthodox Church music in Russia prior to dissolution and merger with the choral faculty of Moscow Conservatory in 1919. The school or ...
in 1897 and from the Music and Drama School of the
Moscow Philharmonic Society The Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra is an orchestra based in Moscow, Russia. It was founded in 1951 by Samuil Samosud, as the Moscow Youth Orchestra for young and inexperienced musicians, acquiring its current name in 1953. It is most associated wit ...
from the piano class of A. N. Koreshchenko in 1907. In 1904 he became assistant director of the Synod Choir and from 1910 to 1918 was its principal director. In 1911, while under his direction, the choir toured Italy, Austria, and Germany, where it demonstrated examples of Russian choral art. After the
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, Danilin directed the best choral groups in the country (the State Choir of the USSR and the Leningrad Academic Choir). In 1923 he began teaching at the
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, becoming a professor in 1930. During his time at the synod choir, he conducted the 1915 premiere of
Rachmaninoff Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff; in Russian pre-revolutionary script. (28 March 1943) was a Russian composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor. Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one of ...
's ''All Night Vigil'' which was, in the minds of many, the composers finest achievement and is indeed one of the finest choral works written to date. {{DEFAULTSORT:Danilin, Nikolai 1878 births 1945 deaths Musicians from Moscow Conductors (music) from the Russian Empire Soviet conductors (music) Academic staff of Moscow Conservatory