Leonid Vladimirovich Nikolayev

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Cyrillic ( Ukrainian )
Леонід Володимирович Ніколаєв
Transl. : Leonid Volodymyrovyč Nikolajev
Transcr. : Leonid Volodymyrowytsch Nikolajew
Cyrillic ( Russian )
Леонид Владимирович Николаев
Transl .: Leonid Vladimirovič Nikolaev
Transcr .: Leonid Vladimirovich Nikolayev

Leonid Vladimirovich Nikolaev (born August 1 . Jul / 13. August  1878 greg. In Kiev , Russian Empire ; † 11. October 1942 in Tashkent , USSR ) was a Ukrainian - Russian pianist , composer and music educator .

Life

Nikolayev learned to play the piano with Vladimir Puchalsky and music theory with Eugeniusz Ryb at the Kiev Music Academy, from which the Kiev Conservatory split off in 1913 . In 1897 he began studying at the Moscow Conservatory . He completed Vasily Safonov's piano class in 1900 and Sergei Taneyev's and Mikhail Ippolitow-Ivanov's composition class in 1902.

As a pianist, Nikolayev first appeared in 1900 in the Association of Lovers of Russian Music, of which he was an active member. His repertoire ranged from Beethoven to Rachmaninoff . He participated in the musical exhibitions and in the Kiev (1904) and St. Petersburg (1907) evenings of modern music . He worked as a répétiteur in Moscow's Bolshoi Theater , taught and composed.

From 1909 Nikolayev taught piano and composition at the St. Petersburg Conservatory and became a professor in 1912. In the mid-1930s he was briefly the director. He was one of the early supporters of Sergei Prokofiev and Nikolai Medtner . Nikolayev's compositional work was very diverse: symphonies , choral music , string quartets and solo pieces for violin , cello and piano. His transcriptions of the organ works by Dieterich Buxtehude and Johann Pachelbel were also used successfully by his students. Nikolayev was particularly well known as a teacher. His students included Alexander Zakin , Vladimir Sofronitsky , Dmitri Shostakovich , Marija Judina , Pawel Serebrjakow , Natan Perelman , Alexander Kerin , Valerian Bogdanow-Berezovsky , Vladimir Deschewow , Boris Golz and Isaak Schwarz Nikolajew were folk artists of the RSFSR .

During the German-Soviet war and the Leningrad blockade , Nikolayev was evacuated to Tashkent with the other lecturers of the now Leningrad Conservatory . There he died of typhus . In 1943 Shostakovich dedicated his Sonata No. 2 for piano by his teacher and friend Leonid Nikolajew.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Савшинский С. И. : Леонид Николаев: Пианист, композитор, педагог . Музгиз, Leningrad, Moscow 1950.
  2. ↑ Савшинский С. И .: Леонид Владимирович Николаев: Очерк жизни и творческой деятельности . Советский композитор, Leningrad 1960.
  3. ↑ Л. В. Николаев: Статьи и воспоминания современников, Письма, К 100-летию со дня рождения . Советский композитор, Leningrad 1979.
  4. ↑ IMSLP: Compositions by: Nikolayev, Leonid (accessed June 18, 2017).
  5. ↑ Gramophone: Isaac Stern - Recital (accessed June 18, 2017).
  6. ↑ Биография Исаака Шварца (accessed June 17, 2017).
personal data
SURNAME Nikolayev, Leonid Vladimirovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Николаев, Леонид Владимирович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian-Russian pianist, composer and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiev , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 1942
Place of death Tashkent , Soviet Union