Lev Nikolayevich V Lassenko

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Lev Nikolajewitsch V Lassenko ( Russian Лев Николаевич Власенко ; born December 24, 1928 in Tbilisi , † August 24, 1996 in Brisbane ) was a Russian pianist and piano teacher.

Life

Vassenko came from a noble family, his grandfather was an artillery general in the Russian army who was wounded in World War I and disappeared without a trace in 1917. W Lassenko's father had a certain musicality and also sang in the church choir of the cadet school, where he had been trained. W Lassenko's mother, nee Benditzki, came from a poor background. She was born into a family of poor Jewish musicians. There was a unique devotion to music in the mother's family. Of the five siblings of his mother Wlaenko four became musicians.

W Lassenko's first teacher was his mother. She was a gifted pianist, but her studies were interrupted by her marriage and the birth of her son, and she has since devoted herself exclusively to raising her son. Later he was accepted into the class of the famous piano teacher Anastasia Wirsaladze , a student of Anna Yessipova . With ten years he played his first concert, the first concert of Beethoven ; The conductor was Odissey Dimitriadi. In Moscow , Vlaenko studied with Jakow Flier .

His piano career began with winning the international Franz Liszt piano competition in Budapest in 1956, and together with the Chinese pianist Liu Shi-Kun, he came second behind Van Cliburn at the first international Tchaikovsky competition in Moscow.

Vlassko began teaching at a young age, first at the Gnessin Institute and from 1957 at the Moscow Conservatory , first as an assistant to his own teacher, Jakow Flier, and later as a professor. His assistant later became Mikhail Pletnjow , who had also studied with Flier and V Lassenko. In addition to Pletnjow, his students included Boris Petrow, Natalia W Lassenko , Alexander Strukow, Victor Chestopal, Victor Eresko , Kalle Randalu and Lew Vinocour.

V Lassenko died in Australia in 1996 and was buried in Moscow's Vagankovo Cemetery. Since 1999 the Lev V Klassenko Piano Competition has been held in his honor every two years .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 88 notes pour piano solo , Jean-Pierre Thiollet , Neva Editions, 2015, p.348. ISBN 978-2-3505-5192-0

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personal data
SURNAME Vassenko, Lev Nikolayevich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Власенко, Лев Николаевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian pianist and piano teacher
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Tbilisi
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 1996
Place of death Brisbane