Mikhail Mikhaylovich Ivanov (Russian: Михаи́л Миха́йлович Ива́нов; 23 September 1849 – 20 October 1927) was a Russian composer, critic and writer on music.
Mikhail Mikhaylovich Ivanov was born in Moscow in 1849. He studied at the Technological Institute, St Petersburg, then at the Moscow Conservatory for a year, under
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (harmony) and
Alexandre Dubuque (piano). He lived the next six years of his life in Rome, where he associated with
Franz Liszt and his pupils and studied with
Giovanni Sgambati. He returned to Russia and became a music critic with the Novoye Vremya.
Many of his compositions were performed, but not published. Arias from his opera Zabava Puytatishna (1899) have been recorded by Olimpia Boronat, Eugenia Bronskaya and Leonid Sobinov. His liturgical piece The Lord's Prayer has been recorded by Nicolai Gedda.
He died in Rome in 1927.
