Konstantin Nikolayevich Igumnov (russian: Константи́н Никола́евич Игу́мнов; , 1873 – March 24, 1948) was a Soviet and Russian pianist and pedagogue.
People's Artist of the USSR (1946).
Biography
Igumnov studied under
Nikolai Zverev
Nikolai Sergeyevich Zverev (russian: Николай Серге́евич Зве́рев, sometimes transliterated Nikolai Zveref; ) was a Russian pianist and teacher known for his pupils Alexander Siloti, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Alexander Scriab ...
, and at
Moscow Conservatory
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under
Alexander Siloti and
Pavel Pabst
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Life and career
Pabst was born Christian Georg Paul Pabst in 1854, into a family of musicians in the cap ...
. He took theory and composition courses from
Sergei Taneyev
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Life
Taneyev was born in Vladimir, Vladimir Governorate, Russia ...
,
Anton Arensky and
Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov
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. In 1898-9 he was pianoforte teacher at the
Tiflis
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music-school of the
Russian Musical Society
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. From 1899 he was Professor at the Moscow Conservatory, where his life's work was carried out. He recorded 6 pieces on
piano roll for the
Welte-Mignon
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Overview
From 1832 until 1932, the firm produced mechanical musi ...
reproducing piano
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in 1910.
Among his many students were
Arno Babajanian,
Bolesław Kon
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Kon was born into a poor Jewish family in Warsaw. He began his piano training aged about 10, at the Moscow Conservatory u ...
,
Naum Shtarkman,
Elena Beckman-Shcherbina,
Yakov Flier
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Flier was born in Orekhovo-Zuy ...
,
Boris Berlin
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,
Lev Oborin
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,
Maria Grinberg
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,
Andrzej Wasowski,
Elena Laumenskienė,
Ryszard Bakst
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Background
Bakst was a descendant of the Russian artist Léon Bakst. His teachers were initially his mother and pianist Józef Turczyńsk ...
,
Tengiz Amirejibi,
Anatoly Alexandrov,
Bella Davidovich,
Rosa Tamarkina,
Issay Dobrowen
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, and
Mariya Gambaryan.
Igumnov was evacuated to
Yerevan
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,
Armenia
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during the first half of 1940s. During those years he was teaching at the local
Conservatory, where his 70th anniversary was widely celebrated.
A four-record (LP) set of Igumnov's recordings was issued by
Melodiya
Melodiya ( rus, links=no, Мелодия, t=Melody) is a Russian (formerly Soviet) record label. It was the state-owned major record company of the Soviet Union.
History
Melodiya was established in 1964 as the "All-Union Gramophone Record Firm ...
on 33C 10-05519-26.
[Methuen-Campbell 1981, 136, n.]
Honours and awards
*
Order of the Red Banner of Labour
The Order of the Red Banner of Labour (russian: Орден Трудового Красного Знамени, translit=Orden Trudovogo Krasnogo Znameni) was an order of the Soviet Union established to honour great deeds and services to th ...
(1937)
*
People's Artist of the RSFSR
People's Artist of the RSFSR (russian: Народный артист РСФСР, ''Narodnyj artist RSFSR'') was an honorary title granted to Soviet Union artists, including theatre and film directors, choreographers, music performers, and orchest ...
(1941)
*
Order of Lenin
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(1945)
*
People's Artist of the USSR (1946)
*
Stalin Prize Stalin Prize may refer to:
* The State Stalin Prize in science and engineering and in arts, awarded 1941 to 1954, later known as the USSR State Prize
The USSR State Prize (russian: links=no, Государственная премия СССР, ...
(1946)
*
*
Welte-Mignon Piano Rolls
*Catalog no. 2061: Rachmaninoff - Prelude, Op. 23, No. 1, f#
*Catalog no. 2062: Rachmaninoff - Prelude, Op. 23, No. 6, Eb
*Catalog no. 2063: Scriabin - Sonata-Fantasie, Op. 19, No. 2, g#
*Catalog no. 2064: Brahms - Intermezzo, Op. 118, No. 6, eb
*Catalog no. 2065: Rachmaninoff - "Fantasy Pieces", Op. 3, No. 2, c#: Prelude
*Catalog no. 2066: Arensky - By the Seashore, Op. 52, No. 4, Gb
Sources
*A. Eaglefield-Hull, ''A Dictionary of Modern Music and Musicians'' (Dent, London 1924).
*J. Methuen-Campbell, ''Chopin Playing from the Composer to the Present Day'' (Gollancz, London 1981).
References
1873 births
1948 deaths
20th-century classical pianists
20th-century male pianists
People from Lebedyansky Uyezd
People from Lipetsk Oblast
Moscow Conservatory academic personnel
Moscow Conservatory alumni
People's Artists of the RSFSR
People's Artists of the USSR
Stalin Prize winners
Recipients of the Order of Lenin
Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Classical pianists from the Russian Empire
Male classical pianists
Pupils of Nikolai Zverev
Pupils of Pavel Pabst
Russian classical pianists
Soviet classical pianists
Burials at Novodevichy Cemetery
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