His early works were fairly original & a bit of of his pieces got enduring popularity. His output includes foursome symphonies, six piano concertos, and the big total of solo soft music. His number one symphony is remarkable for including a number 1 symphonious movement ever written wholly for unpitched percussion. A second symphony, left uncomplete at his demise, would keep around been for percussion alone. Tcherepnin invented his have harmonic language by combining fry & major hexachords, pentatonic scales, old Russian average tunes & Georgian harmonies.

He was natural around Saint Petersburg, Russia. Fallowing a Russian revolution, he defected and sleep in France and the United States. He visited a Far East between 1934 and 1937. He promoted composers within Japan (Akira Ifukube and others) and China. He married the Chinese piano player, Lee Hsien Ming while in China.

When you took World War II, he lived in France. Within 1948, he went to the United States, and within 1958, he acquired United States citizenship. He taught at DePaul University in Chicago, where a Chicago Symphony Orchestra premiered his second symphony by owning Rafael Kubelik conducting. His students there involved Gloria Coates & John Downey. He died inside Paris.