Tatiana Nikolayeva Explained

Tatiana Petrovna Nikolayeva (Russian: Татьяна Петровна Николаева|Tatyana Petrovna Nikolaeva; May 4, 1924November 22, 1993) was a pianist, composer, and teacher from the Soviet Union.

Life

Nikolayeva was born in Bezhitsa,[1] in the Bryansk district, on May 4, 1924. Her mother was a professional pianist and studied at the Moscow Conservatory under the renowned pedagogue Alexander Goldenweiser, and her father was an amateur violinist and cellist.[2] Nikolayeva won first prize in the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in Leipzig, which was founded to mark the bicentenary of Bach's death in 1750. Dmitri Shostakovich, who was a member of the jury, composed and dedicated the 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87, to her: it remained an important part of her piano repertoire.

She sat as a jury member on international competitions such as the Paloma O'Shea Santander International Piano Competition,[3] the International Tchaikovsky Competition and the Leeds Piano Competition.[2] She recorded her own transcription of Sergei Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf.[4] Nikolayeva was the teacher of Nikolai Lugansky.[5] Among her other students were András Schiff, whom she taught in summer courses at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar,[6] and Michael Korstick, whom she taught during her master classes at Musikhochschule Cologne, Germany.

She died on November 22, 1993, in San Francisco, nine days after succumbing to a brain haemorrhage during a performance of one of the Op. 87 fugues at the Herbst Theatre.[2] [7]

As James Campbell-Methuen commented in her obituary, "Aside from the Shostakovich, though, Tatiana Nikolayeva will be remembered as a Bach player who flung stylistic considerations to the winds and played the music with an irrepressible musical intelligence and knowledge of the resources of her chosen instrument."[2]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: The Prokofiev Page – Recordings. https://web.archive.org/web/20051227154616/http://www.prokofiev.org/recordings/recordings.cfm?t=1&uid=163. dead. December 27, 2005.
  2. Web site: Obituary: Tatiana Nikolayeva. https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220526/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-tatiana-nikolayeva-1507034.html . May 26, 2022 . subscription . live. November 27, 1993. The Independent.
  3. http://www.concursodepianodesantander.com/C_Concursos_Premiados.aspx Paloma O’Shea Santander International Piano Competition “Winners, members of the jury and artistic guests”
  4. Web site: scribd. https://web.archive.org/web/20140611223027/http://www.scribd.com/doc/45228604/Prokofiev-Suite-Peter-and-the-Wolf-Op-67-Transcription-Nikolayeva. dead. June 11, 2014.
  5. Web site: Nikolai Lugansky . October 17, 2020 . www.kennedy-center.org.
  6. Book: Schiff, András. Music Comes Out of Silence. April 2, 2020. Orion Publishing Group, Limited. 978-1-4746-1527-3. en.
  7. Web site: Tatiana Nikolayeva (Piano, Arranger) - Short Biography. www.bach-cantatas.com.
  8. Web site: Tatiana Nikolayeva (piano) on Hyperion Records. Hyperion Records.
  9. Web site: Russian Soviet and Post Soviet Concertos page 1- February 2011 MusicWeb-International . October 17, 2012 . January 17, 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130117165104/http://www.musicweb-international.com/Russian_and_Soviet_Discography/RUSSIAN_AND_SOVIET_CONCERTOS_1.htm#NIKOLAYEVA . dead .
  10. Web site: Pianist Tatiana Nikolayeva | website in memoriam of Tatiana Nikolayeva. www.tatiana-nikolayeva.info.