Nikolaev Pianist biography

The Russian Empire, now Ukraine - October 11, Tashkent, Uzbekistan - composer, pianist, teacher, founder of the performing school. Professor Honored Artist, Doctor of Arts, was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor was born in a noble family of a prominent architect, a passionate music lover who, for 30 years, headed the Kiev branch of the Imperial Russian Musical Society.

Musical evenings were held in the house, string quarters, piano plays, arias and romances of Russian and foreign composers performed by the best Kyiv and visiting musicians sounded. From the age of 5 he studied the piano playing with the teacher M. simultaneously studied at the Kiev Music School - he graduated from the class of playing the piano of V. Pukhalsky, a student of T.

Leshetitsky, and the class of the composition of E. Fish, N. had phenomenal memory and erudition.

Freely read from a sheet of clavier and score. At the age of 13, he composed the opera Manfred on the tragedy of J. Byron, a number of romances on the verses of A. Fet, A. Pleshcheeva, F. Tyutcheva, D. Ratgauza and others. At a final exam at the Music School, he performed his essay - a virtuoso “Concertshtyuk” for the piano and the orchestra. He began to speak on a concert stage as a pianist from the age of 14.

He performed his works along with the works of classics and romantics. A. Rubinstein and P. Tchaikovsky, who visited Kyiv, were highly appreciated in the talent of Nikolaev. He entered the Faculty of Law of Moscow University by extermine in and, at the same time, to the Moscow Conservatory. He studied in the class of piano V. Safonov-and the class of the composition of S. Taneyev and M.

Ippolitov-Ivanov-graduated from a large gold medal. He introduced a cantata for soloists, choir and orchestra “Anthem of Spiritual Beauty” at Art. Shelley excerpts were published by P. Nikolaev’s name were listed on the distinction board of the Moscow Conservatory. He served military service as a non-commissioned officer-in Moscow he gave private lessons of piano and was a teacher of music in the gymnasium.

He worked as an accompanist at the Moscow Bolshoi Theater and taught the piano at the Alexander Women's Institute-he was a teacher of the piano and the theory of the composition at the musical and drama school of the Moscow Philharmonic Society-taught the piano at the Moscow People’s Conservatory-during this period he published a sonata for violin and piano, variations and Suite for two ports.

Romances, piano miniatures. As a composer, the classical traditions of the Russian school of the 19th century, experiencing the influence of contemporaries-A. Glazunov, A. Lyadov, N. Metrene, A. Scriabin and S., took an active part in the activities of the Kerzinsky circle of Russian music lovers-concert music and educational organization-participated in the evenings of modern music in Kyiv and St.

Petersburg and acted as a solo and as an accompanist and as an accompanist I. Grzhimali, M. Plaksin, as well as with the singers L. Sobinov, M. Daisha-Siunitskaya, E. Zbrueva and others, was engaged in the promotion of the works of composers of the new Russian school: S. Taneyeva, S. Rachmaninov, N. Metner, S. Prokofiev and others. He was invited by A. Glazunov as a teacher of the St.

Petersburg Conservatory, where his musical, public and pedagogical activity unfolded. He gave copyright concerts that had great success with the public and criticism. He performed with solo and ensemble programs in Moscow, Kyiv, St. Petersburg. In the vast repertoire, in addition to their own works, there were works of L. Mendelssohn, F. Chopin, F. Liste, P.

Tchaikovsky, S. Frank, M. Ravel, K. Debussy, A. Skryabin, A. Arensky, C. Kui, A. Glazunov, N. collaborated with the magazine Musical Contemporary - was the chairman of the commission for the development of a new charter of the Imperial Russian Musical Society; He defended the need for the full separation of the conservatory. After the revolution, in parallel with work in the conservatory, he served in the group of artists at the political administration of the Baltic Fleet.

He spoke to the revolutionary masses in the working and Red Army clubs, as well as in the Philharmonic. He enthusiastically dealt with the problems of piano execution. He gave lectures on the theory and practice of pianism and pianistic pedagogy in the Central House of Arts, the Conservatory, Musical Colleges, the Institute for Advanced Studies of Musical Teachers in Leningrad and Moscow, as well as on the periphery.

The author of methodological works on the problems of setting hands, the principles of homework of the pianist. In –E-Chairman of the Examination Commission of the Piano Faculty of the Moscow Conservatory, as well as a member of the Art and Political Council of the Small Academic Leningrad State Opera Theater and the Petrograd Leningrad Philharmonic. The circle of friendly communication of Nikolaev - A.

Glazunov, M. Steinberg, C. Lyadov, B. Asafiev, V. Shcherbachev, M. Klimov, H. Kushnarev and other outstanding musical figures. Among the published works, N. created a suite for two piano to the music of A. Glazunov’s ballet “Raymond”, the piano transfers of “trepak” from the ballet P.Tchaikovsky “Nutcracker”, organ works of old masters D. Buasthuda, I. Perelbel and versions of cadences to piano concerts by J.

Haydn D-Dur and L. in evacuation was engaged in arrangements for the string quintet of the A-DUR concert orchestral party