Felix Michailowitsch Blumenfeld

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Felix Mikhailovich Blumenfeld ( Russian Феликс Михайлович Блуменфельд , scientific. Transliteration : Feliks Michajlovič Blumenfeľd * 7 . Jul / 19th April  1863 . Greg in Kowalowka (today Kropywnyzkyj ); † 21st January 1931 in Moscow ) was a Russian composer , Conductor and pianist .

Felix Michailowitsch Blumenfeld

Life

Blumenfeld studied composition with Nikolai Rimski-Korsakow and piano with Theodor Stein at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory from 1881 to 1885 . From 1885 to 1918 he worked here as a piano teacher (later professor), and from 1895 to 1911 he was also the conductor of the Mariinsky Theater . Here, under his direction, operas by his teacher Rimsky-Korsakov premiered, and he also directed the Russian premiere of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde . From 1918 to 1922 he was director at the Kiev Conservatory , where Vladimir Horowitz was one of his master students, and from 1922 to 1931 he was a teacher at the Moscow Conservatory .

As a pianist, he played numerous world premieres by contemporary Russian composers.

Blumenfeld composed a symphony himself , an Allegro de concert for piano and orchestra, a string quartet, piano pieces and songs . In particular, his virtuoso piano works have recently been rediscovered.

The piano and song compositions show influences from Frédéric Chopin , the orchestral works are close to Pyotr Tchaikovsky .

He was Heinrich Neuhaus's uncle .

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SURNAME Blumenfeld, Felix Michailowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Блуменфельд, Феликс Михайлович (Russian); Blumenfeľd, Feliks Michajlovič (scientific transliteration)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian composer, conductor and pianist
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Jelisavetgrad
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 1931
Place of death Moscow