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Vtols, born in Valmiera the son of a schoolteacher, began his studies in composition in 1880 at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory with Nikolai RimskyKorsakov. After graduating in 1886, he remained at the Conservatory to teach composition and reached the rank of Professor in 1901. His pupils there included Nikolai Myaskovsky and Sergei Prokofiev. Vtols was a close friend of fellow professors Alexander Glazunov and Anatoly Lyadov he would regularly participate at Mitrofan Belyayevs Weekly Fridaysregular meetings of prominent Russian composers at Belyayevs home. At the time, Belyayev was Vtols primary publisher. Besides academia, Vtols also spent time as a music critic for the St Petersburger Zeitung from 1897 to 1914.

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