Nikita Magaloff

Nikita Magaloff (1965)

Magaloff (right) and Georg Solti (left, 1965)

Nikita Dmitrievich Magaloff (born February 8 ^{. Jul} / 21st February  1912 ^greg. In St. Petersburg , Russian Empire , † 26 December 1992 in Vevey , Switzerland ) was a Russian pianist and interpreter of Chopin and Liszt -Klavierwerken.

Life

During the October Revolution , his family left Russia and went to Finland for four years before settling in Paris. Here Magaloff became a student of Isidore Philipp (who himself had studied with a student of Chopin) and Alexander Iljitsch Siloti (Liszt student ) at the Conservatoire de Paris and studied composition with Sergei S. Prokofiev, who had also fled to Paris . His special patron was Maurice Ravel , who encouraged the young pianist to deal with contemporary piano music. His later successful career took him around the world. Magaloff has repeatedly received invitations to the festivals in Salzburg , Edinburgh, Berlin, Zurich and Lausanne. In 1949 he took over the master class for piano at the Conservatoire de musique de Genève as the successor to Dinu Lipatti . He played chamber music with the pianist Clara Haskil and the Hungarian violinist Joseph Szigeti , whose daughter he married. He last lived on Lake Geneva . Pianists like Maria Tipo and Ingrid Haebler were his students.

Magaloff gained fame through the cyclic playback of all of Chopin's piano works , which he recorded as MIDI data on the Bösendorfer SE in 1989 . He was also an excellent interpreter of Mozart , Beethoven , Schumann , Liszt and Stravinsky . His interpretations of Stravinsky’s piano works were outstanding. As far as can be seen, he was the first to record the Concerto for piano and wind orchestra and the Capriccio for piano and orchestra with the Orchester de la Suisse Romande under the direction of Ernest Ansermet for the record. In 1985 the concert for piano and wind orchestra was recorded (re-released in 2006) with the NDR symphony orchestra under the direction of Günter Wand . He played in the piano duo with his friend Michel Dalberto , who followed him on the jury of the International Clara Haskil Piano Competition in 1991 .

Web links

Commons : Nikita Magaloff  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Sound carrier by Nikita Magaloff in the catalog of the German National Library
• Noel Goodwin: Obituary: Nikita Magaloff. The Independent , December 28, 1992, accessed June 5, 2012 . 
• Nikita Magaloff (piano) with Bach Cantatas (English)