Mayor Brenner

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| birth_date = 7 January 1907

| birth_place = Dnipro, Russian Empire

| death_date = 7 April 1973

| death_place = Baku, Azerbaijan SSR

| nationality = Azerbaijani

| citizenship = Soviet Union
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Mayor Rafaelovich Brenner (Azerbaijani:Mayor Rafailoviç Brenner, b. 7 January 1907, Dnipro, Russian Empire - d. 7 April 1973, Baku, Azerbaijan SSR) was a Soviet pianist and music teacher. People's Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR (1968).Видные деятели фортепианной культуры Азербайджана / сост. и авт. предисл. Т. Сеидов. — Баку: Ишыг, 1988. — p. 168. — ISBN 5-89650-001-7.

He was a student of Uzeyir Hajibeyov.

Life

After graduating from the Ekaterinoslav Music Technical School, he entered the Saint Petersburg Conservatory in the class of Leonid Nikolaev. Upon completing his studies at the conservatory, he performed as a soloist and ensemble musician. From the mid-1930s, he settled in Baku and completed his postgraduate studies at the Baku Conservatory under the guidance of Uzeyir Hajibeyov.{{cite web

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In the 1930s and 1940s, he became the first performer of several works by Azerbaijani composers such as Gara Garayev, Fikret Amirov, and others. Brenner was one of the founders of the Azerbaijani piano school, teaching at the conservatory from 1935 and becoming a professor in 1951. Among his students was, notably, Farhad Badalbeyli.{{cite web

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|title = Бреннер Майор Рафаилович - пианист и педагог

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He passed away on April 7, 1973, in Baku, and was buried in the Second Alley of Honorary Burial in Baku.