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Ippolitov-Ivanov, Mikhail Mikhailovich
(mkhyl´ mkh´lvch ply´tf-vä´nf) (KEY) , 18591935, Russian composer; pupil of Rimsky-Korsakov at the Moscow Conservatory. His work best-known outside Russia is the suite Caucasian Sketches (1894).