Vitaly Iosifovich Margulis (russian: Виталий Иосифович Маргулис; April 16, 1928 – May 29, 2011) was a
Soviet-
Russian classical pianist.
Biography
Vitaly Margulis (also known as Vitalij Margulis) was born in the city of
Kharkov in the
USSR (now Kharkiv, Ukraine). He took his first piano lessons from his father, whose teacher studied with the composer
Alexander Scriabin
Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin (; russian: Александр Николаевич Скрябин ; – ) was a Russian composer and virtuoso pianist. Before 1903, Scriabin was greatly influenced by the music of Frédéric Chopin and composed ...
. Margulis continued studies at the
Leningrad Conservatory, where from 1958 until his emigration to the west in 1974, he taught piano. In 1975, Margulis became a full Professor at the
Hochschule für Musik Freiburg, Germany. In 1994, he became Professor of Piano at the
University of California in Los Angeles. In addition, he also gave piano master classes around the world.
References
External links
Vitaly Margulis website
Ukrainian pianists
1928 births
2011 deaths
Musicians from Kharkiv
Academic staff of the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg
UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music faculty
20th-century classical pianists
Jewish classical pianists
Ukrainian classical pianists
Ukrainian emigrants to Germany
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