Nikolay Medtner

Nikolai Karlovich Medtner was a Russian composer and pianist.

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Nikolay Medtner, a German-Russian composer born in Moscow in 1879, was a pupil of the Moscow Conservatory, where he later served as a professor in 1909-10 and again from 1918-21, according to The New Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians (1924). His piano studies included tutelage under Vassily Ilyitch Safonov, a notable conductor and director of the National Conservatory, as recorded in Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians: American Supplement (1920). Medtner achieved early recognition, taking the Rubinstein prize at Vienna in 1900, and subsequently toured as a pianist for several years. While his early compositions evinced the influence of Brahms, he later gravitated toward “less classical styles,” as observed by The New Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians (1924). His output includes seven piano sonatas, a “Sonaten-Ballade,” numerous shorter piano pieces, a violin sonata, cadenzas for Beethoven’s Fourth Concerto, and many songs. His work was the subject of a monograph by Leonid Leonidovitch Sabaniev in 1913.