Andantino. Three Elegiac Melodies Op.3 No 2.

Nikolai Zhilyayev.
Born; 18 October 1881 in Kursk.
Died; 20 January 1938 buried in the Kommunarka shooting ground.

Zhilyayev was a Russian musicologist, and the teacher of several 20th-century Russian composers. He was a victim of political repression in the Soviet Union.

He was a pupil of Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov and Sergei Taneyev at the Moscow Conservatory in around 1904.

He went on to teach there himself. His pupils included the composers Yevgeny Golubev, Aram Khachaturian, Lev Knipper, Alexei Fedorovich Kozlovsky, Alexei Vladimirovich Stanchinsky, Anatoly Nikolayevich Alexandrov and Samuil Evgenyevich Feinberg.

He was a member of the Russian Academy of Art-Sciences and of the State Institute of Musical Science. He wrote many essays. Zhilyayev was shot shortly after his arrest during Joseph Stalin's state repression known as the Great Terror.

Three Elegiac Melodies op. 3 were composed in 1904.
No. 1. Sostenuto in C minor
No. 2. Andantino in G minor
No. 3. Piacevole in F-sharp major

The three pieces of Op 3 are performed here on piano;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWHOek31QKc

Score attached below.