Alexander Goldenweiser (composer)

Alexander Borisovich Goldenweiser (or Goldenveyzer; Russian: Алекса́ндр Бори́сович Гольденве́йзер; 10 March [O.S. 26 February] 1875  26 November 1961)[1] was a Russian pianist, teacher and composer.

Goldenweiser was born in Kishinev, Bessarabia, Russia, and studied at the Moscow Conservatory under Sergei Taneyev and Vassily Safonoff, winning the Gold Medal for Piano upon his graduation in 1897. He joined the faculty of the Conservatory shortly afterward, and during his tenure there, his pupils included Grigory Ginzburg, Lazar Berman, Samuil Feinberg, Dmitry Kabalevsky, Galina Eguiazarova, Nikolai Petrov, Nikolai Kapustin, Alexander Braginsky, Sulamita Aronovsky, Tatiana Nikolayeva, Dmitry Paperno, Oxana Yablonskaya, Nelly Akopian-Tamarina, Dmitri Bashkirov, Dmitry Blagoy and many others.[2] See: List of music students by teacher: G to J#Alexander Goldenweiser.

Rachmaninoff's Second Suite, Op. 17, was dedicated to him as well as Medtner's Lyric Fragments, Op. 23.

He was a close friend of Leo Tolstoy.[3][4] He published memories of his relationship with Tolstoy in his book Vblizi Tolstogo.[5]

He made a number of renowned recordings as a pianist, including four recordings on piano roll for the Welte-Mignon reproducing piano in 1910.[6] He died in 1961, in Moscow Oblast.

Honours and awards

Selective discography

References

Notes

  1. I.M. Yampol'sky "Alexander (Borisovich) Goldenweiser" in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians London: Macmillan, 1980
  2. Troyat, Henri. Tolstoy. New York: Grove Press, 2001, p. 606.
  3. Smith, Charles D, and Richard J. Howe. The Welte-Mignon: Its Music and Musicians. Vestal, N.Y: Published by Vestal Press for the Automatic Musical Instrument Collectors' Association, 1994, p. 375. ISBN 9781879511170
  4. Golʹdenveĭzer, Aleksandr B. Vblizi Tolstogo. Moskva: Gos. izd-vo khudozhestvennoĭ literatury, 1959.
  5. Smith, Charles D, and Richard J. Howe. The Welte-Mignon: Its Music and Musicians. Vestal, N.Y: Published by Vestal Press for the Automatic Musical Instrument Collectors' Association, 1994, p. 375. ISBN 9781879511170
  6. Bennett, Melodiya Catalogue, Greenwood Press, 1981
  7. http://www.toccataclassics.com/cddetail.php?CN=TOCC0044

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