Nikolai Andreevich Orlov

Nikolai Andrejewitsch Orlow ( Russian: Николай Андреевич Орлов ; born February 25, 1892 in Jelez , † May 31, 1964 in Grantown-on-Spey ) was a Russian-British pianist and music teacher.

Orloff had his first piano lessons from his mother and was later a student of Karl Kipp and Konstantin Nikolajewitsch Igumnow at the Moscow Conservatory and Vasily Ilyich Safonow at the Gnessin Institute in Moscow , where he won a gold medal in 1910. He made his pianist debut in Moscow in 1912 and in the same year played the world premiere of Alexander Glasunov's First Piano Concerto. From 1913 he taught at the Music Academy of the Moscow Philharmonic Society, from 1916 to 1921 at the Moscow Conservatory.

At the end of 1921 he traveled to Western Europe with Glasunov, who was conducting his first concert, and settled in Paris in 1922. From there he went on concert tours through Europe. In 1924 he came to Great Britain. There he made his debut with the Scottish Orchestra Glasgow and then performed in London. Concert tours from here took him to North and South America, the Far East and almost every country in Europe. In 1951 he received British citizenship. He gave his last concert in Milan in 1962. He was best known as a Chopin interpreter, and a recording of Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto has been preserved .

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• Nikolai Andreyevich Orlov in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• The Glasgow Harold, June 2, 1964 - Obituary Nicolas Orloff
• Forte-piano-pianissimo - Nikolaj Orloff
• Prabook - Nikolai Andreevich Orlov