Goedicke

Alexander Goedicke (1877 - 1957 in Moscow) was a Russian composer and pianist. Goedicke was a professor at the Moscow Conservatory. He studied piano at the Moscow Conservatory, and although quite prolific as a composer, had no formal training in composition. But despite his lack of traditional guidance, his compositional efforts were rewarded when he won the Rubinstein Prize for Composition at the young age of 23.