The Composer Alexander Fyodorovich Goedike (1877-1957) grew up in a musicians' family of German origin. His grandfather Karl (dates unknown) was an organist and singing teacher. His father, Friedrich Alexander Paul (Fyodor Karlovich, 1839?) was an organist and pianist in the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow. Another Karl, perhaps a brother of his father's, is said to have been a trumpeter in the Bolshoi Theater Orchestra. He is said to have performed Tchaikovsky's "Neapolitan Dance" in 1876 in public, ...