Editing Nicolas Slonimsky (section)

===Early life in Russia and Europe===
Slonimsky was born Nikolai Leonidovich Slonimskiy in [[Saint Petersburg]]. He was of [[Jew]]ish origin; his grandfather was Rabbi [[Chaim Zelig Slonimsky]]. His parents adopted the Orthodox faith after the birth of his older brother, and Nicolas was baptized in the [[Russian Orthodox Church]].<ref name="Perfect">{{cite book|last=Slonimsky|first=Nicolas|title=Perfect Pitch: A Life Story|url=https://archive.org/details/perfectpitch0000unse|url-access=registration|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1988|location=London, England|isbn=0-19-315155-3}}</ref> His maternal aunt, [[Isabelle Vengerova]], later a founder of Philadelphia's [[Curtis Institute of Music]], was his first piano teacher.

He grew up in the [[intelligentsia]]. After the [[Russian Revolution]] of 1917, he moved south, first to [[Kyiv]], then to [[Constantinople]], and ultimately to Paris, where many other Russian musicians and his sister [[Yulia Slonimskaya Sazonova]]<ref>{{cite book|last1=Slonimsky|first1=Nicolas|editor-last1=Slonimsky Yourke|editor-first1=Electra|title=Dear Dorothy: Letters from Nicolas Slonimsky to Dorothy Adlow|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dVPNo7dTcjEC&pg=PA7|year=2012|publisher=University of Rochester Press|location=Rochester, New York|isbn=978-1-58046-395-9|pages=5–9}}</ref> had already fled. He worked as accompanist to conductor [[Serge Koussevitzky]], and he toured Europe in 1921–22 as accompanist to tenor [[Vladimir Rosing]]. In 1923, Rosing became director of opera at the [[Eastman School of Music]] in [[Rochester, New York]], and he invited Slonimsky to join him.

Slonimsky's younger brother, [[Mikhail Slonimsky|Mikhail]], remained in Russia and became an author. His nephew, [[Sergei Slonimsky]], became a composer.{{citation needed|date=July 2015}}