Karel van Ark
Karel Karlovich van Ark ( Russian Карл Карлович Фан-Арк * August 28 . Jul / 9. September 1839 . Greg in St. Petersburg ; † August 24 . Jul / 6. September 1902 . Greg ) was a Dutch - Russian Pianist and music teacher .
Life
Van Ark, son of the organist of the Dutch Reformed Church in St. Petersburg, studied piano with Theodor Leschetizky and composition with Nikolai Saremba . When the St. Petersburg Conservatory was founded in 1862 , he taught piano there, initially as Leschetitsky's assistant and from 1873 as a professor.
Van Ark composed pieces for piano and wrote a piano technique school. His students included Sergei Bortkiewicz , Artur Lemba , Evgeni Raphof and Nikolai Tscherepnin . Anna Jessipowa was only with Van Ark for a short time.
Van Ark was buried in St. Petersburg's Volkovo Lutheran Cemetery.
Individual evidence
- ^ Riemann music lexicon : Ark van, Karel.
- ↑ Большой Энциклопедический словарь: Музыка. In: Большая Российская энциклопедия . 1998, p. 570 .
- ↑ Фан-Арк, К. К .: Школа фортепианной техники . St. Petersburg 1875.
- ↑ Volkovo Cemetery Plan (accessed June 12, 2017).
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SURNAME | Ark, Karel van |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ark, Karel Karlowitsch van (full name); Фан-Арк, Карл Карлович (Russian) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch-Russian pianist and music teacher |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 9, 1839 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Petersburg |
DATE OF DEATH | September 6, 1902 |
Place of death | St. Petersburg |