Nikolai Zaremba

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Nikolai Zaremba was a Russian musical theorist , teacher, and composer born in 1821. He studied at the St. Petersburg Conservatory and was a pupil of the famous composer Anton Rubinstein. Zaremba was known for his expertise in music theory, and many of his students went on to become successful composers, including Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky who was perhaps his most famous pupil.