Tatiana Nikolayeva

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Tatiana Petrovna Nikolayeva ({{langx|ru|Татьяна Петровна Николаева|Tatyana Petrovna Nikolaeva}}; May 4, 1924{{spaced ndash}}November 22, 1993) was a Soviet and Russian pianist, composer, and teacher.

Life

Nikolayeva was born in Bezhitsa,{{Cite web|url=http://www.prokofiev.org/recordings/recordings.cfm?t=1&uid=163|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20051227154616/http://www.prokofiev.org/recordings/recordings.cfm?t=1&uid=163|url-status=dead|title=The Prokofiev Page – Recordings|archivedate=December 27, 2005}} 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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-tatiana-nikolayeva-1507034.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220526/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-tatiana-nikolayeva-1507034.html |archive-date=May 26, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Obituary: Tatiana Nikolayeva|date=November 27, 1993|website=The Independent}} 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,[http://www.concursodepianodesantander.com/C_Concursos_Premiados.aspx Paloma O’Shea Santander International Piano Competition “Winners, members of the jury and artistic guests”] the International Tchaikovsky Competition and the Leeds Piano Competition. She recorded her own transcription of Sergei Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf.{{Cite web|url=https://www.scribd.com/doc/45228604/Prokofiev-Suite-Peter-and-the-Wolf-Op-67-Transcription-Nikolayeva|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140611223027/http://www.scribd.com/doc/45228604/Prokofiev-Suite-Peter-and-the-Wolf-Op-67-Transcription-Nikolayeva|url-status=dead|title=scribd|archivedate=June 11, 2014}} Nikolayeva was the teacher of Nikolai Lugansky.{{Cite web |title=Nikolai Lugansky |url=https://www.kennedy-center.org/artists/l/lo-lz/nikolai-lugansky/ |access-date=October 17, 2020 |website=www.kennedy-center.org}} Among her other students were András Schiff, whom she taught in summer courses at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar,{{Cite book|last=Schiff|first=András|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IpGTxwEACAAJ|title=Music Comes Out of Silence|date=April 2, 2020|publisher=Orion Publishing Group, Limited|isbn=978-1-4746-1527-3|language=en}} 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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Nikolayeva-Tatiana.htm|title=Tatiana Nikolayeva (Piano, Arranger) - Short Biography|website=www.bach-cantatas.com}}

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."

Partial repertoire

Preludes, Op. 34 (Shostakovich){{Cite web|url=https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/a.asp?a=A1004|title=Tatiana Nikolayeva (piano) on Hyperion Records|website=Hyperion Records}}
24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87 (Shostakovich){{Cite web|URL=https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/24_Preludes_and_Fugues_(Shostakovich)|title=Preludes and Fugues (Shostakovich)}}
Piano Concerto No. 1 (Tchaikovsky)
Piano Concerto No. 2 (Shostakovich)

Compositions

Violin Concerto (1972){{Cite web |url=http://www.musicweb-international.com/Russian_and_Soviet_Discography/RUSSIAN_AND_SOVIET_CONCERTOS_1.htm#NIKOLAYEVA |title=Russian Soviet and Post Soviet Concertos page 1- February 2011 MusicWeb-International |access-date=October 17, 2012 |archive-date=January 17, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130117165104/http://www.musicweb-international.com/Russian_and_Soviet_Discography/RUSSIAN_AND_SOVIET_CONCERTOS_1.htm#NIKOLAYEVA |url-status=dead }}
Symphony (1955; rev. 1958){{CN|date=May 2023}}
24 Concert Études, Op. 13, in all major and minor keys (1951–53){{Cite web|url=https://www.tatiana-nikolayeva.info/|title=Pianist Tatiana Nikolayeva | website in memoriam of Tatiana Nikolayeva|website=www.tatiana-nikolayeva.info}}
Piano Quintet (1947){{CN|date=May 2023}}

References

External links

[http://www.tatiana-nikolayeva.info/ website in memoriam of Tatiana Nikolayeva]
[http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/artist_page.asp?name=nikolayeva Short biography] and photograph from Hyperion Records
[http://www.bruceduffie.com/nikolayeva2.html Interview with Tatiana Nikolayeva] by Bruce Duffie, October 16, 1992

Category:1924 births

Category:1993 deaths

Category:People from Bryansk

Category:People's Artists of the USSR

Category:Recipients of the Stalin Prize

Category:Russian classical pianists

Category:Russian women pianists

Category:Women classical pianists

Category:20th-century Russian classical composers

Category:Soviet women classical composers

Category:Russian women classical composers

Category:Soviet classical composers