High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Alexander Ilyich Siloti (also Ziloti, Russian: Aleksandr Ilich Ziloti, Aleksandr Iljic Ziloti) (9 October 1863, near Kharkiv - 8 December 1945, New York) was a Russian pianist, conductor and composer. (Spelling note: A truer transliteration of his surname into English would be Ziloti, however, it is usually seen in its German transliteration Siloti. Initial s in German is pronounced z.)