Herman Augustovich Laroche was a Russian classical music critic and composer who was renowned throughout Moscow.
Occupation
composer, musicologist, literary critic, music critic
Citizenship
Russian Empire
Born
May 13, 1845
Died
October 5, 1904
Overview
Herman Augustovich Laroche (; also German Avgustovič Laroš; 25 May 1845 in Saint Petersburg – 18 October 1904) was a Russian critic of classical music and composer who was renowned throughout Moscow.
Life
Herman Laroche was born in St. Petersburg in 1845 in the family of a French teacher. Laroche studied piano with Alexandre Dubuque at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. After graduating from the Conservatory in 1866, he worked as a professor of music history and theory at the Moscow Conservatory (1867–1870, 1883–1886) and the Saint Petersburg Conservatory (1872–1875 and 1879).
Around 1875, Laroche left the St. Petersburg Conservatory; later he again taught at the St. Petersburg and Moscow conservatories. He gave public lectures on the history of music in St. Petersburg with great success; wrote in the "Musical List", "Yearbook of the Imperial Theaters", "News", etc.
From 1898 to 1901, Herman's family lived in house number 9 on Pushkinskaya Street.
