Markian Frolov

Markian Frolov (1892-1944) was a Soviet pianist, composer and teacher. He graduate the Leningrad Conservatory. From 1924, he was instructor in Kiev’s Lysenko Institute of Music and Drama. He taught the piano at the Kiev Conservatory and he was a founder and the first director of the Sverdlovsk Conservatory (1934–7 and 1943–4) where he taught the piano and composition.