Livery Antonovich Sacchetti
Livery Antonovich Sakchetti (1815–1916) () was an Italian-Russian Music Historian, Theoretician, and Music Critic of the 19th century. He was the first Professor in Music History and Aesthetics at The St. Petersburg Conservatory, and was a member of the Bologna Philharmonic Academy. His 1883 essay entitled "Essay on the General History of Music" is considered to be the earliest, systematic study on the history of Russian music in the country, and his detailed studies of music theory, music pedagogy, and musical aesthetics are still used in Conservatory and Academies today. Family. Livery Sakchetti was born in 1852  in the town of Ust-Kenzar located in the Tambov Oblast, Russia. He was born into a prominent family of Italian musicians, and is confirmed to have had one son, Alexander Sacchetti. Education. Livery was a graduate of The St. Petersburg Conservatory in the faculties of cello, having studied with Jewish cellist and composer Karl Davydov, and music-theory, studying under both Yu. I. Johansen and N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov. He would later go on to become a Professor in Music History and Aesthetics at the Conservatory. Career. In 1886, he began teaching his first classes and for the first  time in Russian Conservatory practice, he began teaching classes dedicated to discussing the aesthetics and historical significance of composers both domestic and European in origination.