 Feodor Koenemann was trained from 1892 to 1897 at the Moscow Conservatory under Nikolay Zverev (1892–1895, piano), Vasily Safonov (1895–1897, piano), Anton Arensky, Sergei Taneyev and Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov (1897, Music Theory).He was graduated in 1897 with the Great Gold Medal with two specialities – Pianist and Music theory.From 1896 to 1897 Koenemann, being a student, worked as a piano teacher at the Moscow Aleksandrovsky Institute (Russian