Vitaly Margulis
Vitaly Margulis , actually Witalij Iossifowytsch Margulis (born April 16, 1928 in Charkiw , Soviet Union (now Ukraine ); † May 29, 2011 in Los Angeles , USA ) was a Soviet pianist and music teacher .
Margulis received his first piano lessons from his father. He completed his studies at the Leningrad Conservatory as a student of Samari Savchinsky. From 1958 he was the head of his own master class at the Leningrad Conservatory . He was a permanent soloist with the Leningrad Philharmonic and played over 1,000 concerts throughout the Soviet Union .
In 1974 he emigrated to the Federal Republic of Germany , where he was appointed professor at the Freiburg University of Music in 1975 . In that year he also resumed his concert activities .
Margulis captured the essence of his piano pedagogy in aphorisms and published it in two books. He also worked as a music teacher. His master class in Freiburg im Breisgau has trained pianists since 1987 in the tradition of the Russian School of the Rubinstein Brothers . In 1994, he received a call to the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA).
Works (selection)
- Tempo relationship in music: Beethoven's principles d. Metronome; new possibilities d. To use the metronome . Isny: Wittner, 1983.
- Bagatelles op. 5: Aphorisms and thoughts of a pianist . Freiburg im Breisgau: Rombach, 1999. ISBN 3-7930-0888-6 .
- Bagatelles op. 9: Aphorisms and thoughts of a pianist . Freiburg im Breisgau: Rombach, 2003. ISBN 3-7930-9365-4
Web links
- Homepage
- Works by and about Vitaly Margulis in the catalog of the German National Library
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SURNAME | Margulis, Vitaly |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Margulis, Witalij Iossifowytsch (real name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian pianist and music teacher |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 16, 1928 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Kharkiv , Soviet Union (now Ukraine ) |
DATE OF DEATH | May 29, 2011 |
Place of death | Los Angeles , USA |