Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev (also Taneev or Taneiev) (November 25 (old system??), 1856 - June 19 1915), a pupil of Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a Russian composer, teacher, theorist and author. His substantial output of music included nine string quartets, a piano quintet, two string quintets and other chamber works; four symphonies (only one published during his lifetime, and at least one incomplete), a concert suite with violin and a piano concerto, and other orchestral works; organ music; much choral and vocal music; one piano prelude and fugue (the prelude and fugue in g#, published in a Dover Publications edition of Russian piano works) and an opera, Oresteia. His nephew, Alexander Sergeevich Taneyev was also a composer.

Book

Invertible Counterpoint in the Strict Style, by Sergei Taneyev. 1962 edition, Branden Pub. Co. ISBN 0828314152. Preface written by Serge Koussevitzky.