Leonid Vladimirovich Nikolayev (russian: Леони́д Влади́мирович Никола́ев, August 13, 1878October 11, 1942) was a
Russia
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n/
Soviet
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pianist
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,
composer
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and pedagogue.
Biography
Nikolayev was born in
Kiev
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in 1878. He studied at the
Moscow Conservatory
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with
Sergei Taneyev
Sergey Ivanovich Taneyev (russian: Серге́й Ива́нович Тане́ев, ; – ) was a Russian composer, pianist, teacher of composition, music theorist and author.
Life
Taneyev was born in Vladimir, Vladimir Governorate, Russia ...
and
Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov
Mikhail Mikhailovich Ippolitov-Ivanov (russian: Михаи́л Миха́йлович Ипполи́тов-Ива́нов; 28 January 1935) was a Russian and Soviet composer, conductor and teacher. His music ranged from the late-Romantic era ...
. For many years Nikolayev was a professor of piano at the
Leningrad Conservatoire, and was for a short and unsuccessful period director of the institution. His students at the Conservatory included
Vladimir Sofronitsky
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,
Maria Yudina
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,
Dmitri Shostakovich
Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich, , group=n (9 August 1975) was a Soviet-era Russian composer and pianist who became internationally known after the premiere of his Symphony No. 1 (Shostakovich), First Symphony in 1926 and was regarded throug ...
,
[Laurel Fay, Shostakovich: A Life p. 18] Vera Razumovskaya,
Nathan Perelman,
Wiktor Labunski,
Vera Vinogradova
Vera Pavlovna Vinogradova Biek (23 February 1895 – 19 April 1982) was a Soviet composer and pianist. She performed and published her music under the name "Vera Vinogradova."
Vinogradova was born in Leningrad. She studied music at the Leningrad C ...
,
Samary Savshinsky,
Nadia Reisenberg
Nadia Reisenberg Sherman (14 July 1904 – 10 June 1983) was an American pianist of Lithuanian birth.
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,
Alexander Zakin
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.
He became close friends with Shostakovich—Shostakovich "admired him as a first-class musician and a man of great wisdom and learning"
[Shostakovich, ed. Glikman, p.233] and also said of him: "He trained not simply pianists, but in the first place thinking musicians. He didn't create a school in the specific sense of some single narrow professional direction. He shaped and nurtured a broad aesthetic trend in the sphere of pianistic art."
Shostakovich's 1943
Piano Sonata No. 2 was dedicated to his former teacher.
Nikolayev was evacuated to
Tashkent
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along with other musicians, after
Germany invaded Russia in 1941, and died there in 1942.
His compositional output includes
symphonic works, choral works,
string quartets
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, and solo works for
violin
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,
cello
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, and piano.
Notes
References
* Shostakovich, Dmitri and Glikman, Isaak (2001). ''Story of a Friendship: The Letters of Dmitry Shostakovich to Isaak Glikman''. Cornell University Press. .
*
Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of 20th Century Classical Musicians
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1878 births
1942 deaths
Russian classical pianists
Male classical pianists
Russian music educators
Russian composers
Russian male composers
Saint Petersburg Conservatory academic personnel
Piano pedagogues
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