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=== Assistant: Excellent insight. ===
Excellent insight. Vladimir Dukelsky (later known in the West as Vernon Duke) was born in 1903 and, like Yakob Gyorgi, came from a Russian-Jewish background and showed early compositional talent. He entered the Moscow Conservatory in 1915 and studied under Reinhold Glière. He and Yakob, with overlapping interests in both classical rigor and “corrupted” Western styles (particularly jazz and ragtime), would certainly have crossed paths—perhaps uneasily, perhaps competitively.

Now let us press forward another ten years into the Soviet 1920s—years of experimentation, repression, and ever-tightening control.