Vasily Lvovich Sapelnikov

Wassily Sapellnikoff ( Russian : Василий Львович Сапельников ; born October 21 ^{. Jul} / 2. November  1867 ^greg. In Odessa ; † 17th March 1941 in San Remo ) was a Russian composer and particularly virtuoso pianist .

Life

He studied at the St. Petersburg Conservatory with Louis Brassin , after his death in 1884 with Sophie Menter and Anatoli Lyadow . Sapelnikov then became a professor at the Moscow Conservatory .

From 1888 to 1889 he accompanied Tchaikovsky on a concert tour through Europe. In Hamburg in 1889 he played the first piano concerto at a concert of the Philharmonic Society , which until then was considered unplayable. The great success of this performance made him known in one fell swoop. He also played this piece as the first pianist in London , also with enormous success. He then went on concert tours across Europe and became a sought-after and valued concert pianist who occasionally also worked as a conductor. From 1897 to 1899 he worked as a professor at the Moscow Conservatory, where Medtner was one of his students.

In the spring of 1910 he recorded twelve piano pieces for the Welte-Mignon reproduction piano , including six of his own.

In 1912 he went to Leipzig. He then lived in Munich and Berlin until the First World War and again in Odessa from 1916 to 1922. He emigrated to Germany in 1923 and later to Italy, where he died at the age of 74.

Web links

• Biography , Musical Encyclopedia (Russian)