Tatiana Petrovna Nikolaeva
Tatiana Petrovna Nikolajewa ( Russian Татьяна Петровна Николаева, born May 4, 1924 in Beschiza, now a district of Bryansk ; † November 22, 1993 in San Francisco , United States ) was a Soviet pianist .
Life
From 1937 she studied piano at the Moscow Central School of Music with Alexander Goldenweiser and moved to the Moscow Conservatory in 1942 , where she studied piano until 1947 and composition with Yevgeny Golubew and Vissarion Schebalin until 1950 . Since 1945 she has performed successfully, first in the Eastern Bloc, but soon afterwards also in western countries. Since 1959 she taught at the Moscow Conservatory, where she was appointed professor in 1965.
In 1950 she won the 1st Leipzig Bach Competition . Jury member Dmitri Schostakowitsch wrote for her, inspired by Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier , 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87 , which she premiered in 1952 with great success and recorded three times in the course of her life.
As a composer she created a. a. a symphony, further orchestral works and concerts (two piano concertos, one violin concerto), vocal works (a cantata, song cycles), chamber and solo piano music.
During a concert at the Fall Theater in San Francisco on November 13, 1993, she suffered a massive cerebral haemorrhage, fell into a coma and died a few days later.
swell
- Alain Paris: Classical Music in the 20th Century , 2nd edition, dtv, Munich 1995; ISBN 3-423-32501-1
- Krzysztof Meyer : Shostakovich. His life, his work, his time . Gustav Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1995, ISBN 3-7857-0772-X , p. 353-357,595 .
Web links
- Website in memoriam of Tatiana Nikolayeva (English).
- Recordings by Tatjana Petrovna Nikolajewa in the catalog of the German National Library
- Tatiana Petrovna Nikolaeva. In: FemBio. Women's biography research (with references and citations).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Peter Seidle: Nikolaeva, Tat'jana Petrovna. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 12 (Mercadante - Paix). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2004, ISBN 3-7618-1122-5 ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
- ↑ James Methuen-Campbell: Obituary: Tatiana Nikolayeva. The Independent, November 27, 1993, accessed June 16, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nikolayeva, Tatiana Petrovna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Николаева, Татьяна Петровна (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Soviet pianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 4, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Beshiza, now part of Bryansk |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 22, 1993 |
| Place of death | San Francisco , United States |