Nikolai Arnoldowitsch Petrov

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Nikolai Arnoldowitsch Petrow ( Russian: Никола́й Арно́льдович Петро́в , scientific transliteration Nikolaj Arnol'dovič Petrov ; born April 14, 1943 in Moscow ; †  August 3, 2011 ibid) was a Russian pianist and piano teacher .

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Nikolai Petrov was born into a family of outstanding musicians in 1943 and took his mother's surname. His father was the cellist Arnold Jakowljewitsch Ferkelman , who was friends with Dmitri Shostakovich . His grandfather, Vasily Rodionowitsch Petrow, was a well-known bass player in Russia and sang at the Bolshoi Theater with greats such as Fyodor Chalyapin .

In 1961 Petrow graduated from the Central Music School in Moscow , where he studied with Tatjana E. Kestner. Between 1962 and 1968 he studied at the Moscow Conservatory with Professor Jakow Sak . Petrow first received public attention when he won second prize at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in Fort Worth, Texas in 1962 , behind Ralph Votapek and ahead of Mikhail Sergejewitsch Voskressensky . Two years later, he won second prize at the Reine Elisabeth International Piano Competition in Brussels, where it was placed behind Yevgeny Mogilewski .

His repertoire included around 50 recital programs and 50 concerts with orchestra. He worked with numerous famous conductors, including Mariss Jansons , Kirill Kondrashin , Gennady Roschdestvensky , Evgeny Svetlanov and Juri Temirkanow . In addition to works of the classical and romantic tradition, he also performed contemporary compositions by Aram Khachaturian , Tikhon Khrennikov , Rodion Shchedrin and Andrei Eschpai . He played between 70 and 100 concerts a year, about ten of which took place in the great hall of the Moscow Conservatory as part of the Nikolai Petrov plays cycle .

Nikolai Petrov was a professor at the Moscow Conservatory, where many famous pianists studied with him. He also held leading positions in several important Russian cultural societies. Like his teacher Jakow Sak, Nikolai Petrov was also a People's Artist of the USSR .

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SURNAME Petrow, Nikolai Arnoldowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Petrov, Nikolai; Петров, Николай Арнольдович
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian pianist
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow
DATE OF DEATH August 3, 2011
Place of death Moscow