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Siloti, who was one of the great practitioners of the art of transcription, wrote over 200 of these arrangements, as well as orchestral editions of the music of Bach, Beethoven, Liszt, Tchaikovsky and
Vivaldi. Possibly his most famous transcription is the
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with the composer as soloist in 1901. From 1901 to 1903, he led the Moscow
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Alexander Siloti
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Alexander Siloti
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of Music. "Alexander Ilich Ziloti (1863-1945)". Moscow, 2016. Published in commemoration of Ziloti and his career at the
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