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The Piano Teacher (German: Die Klavierspielerin [diː klaˈviːɐ̯ˌʃpiːləʁɪn]; transl. "The Piano Player [f.]") is a novel by Austrian Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek, first published in 1983 by Rowohlt Verlag. Translated by Joachim Neugroschel, it was the first of Jelinek's novels to be translated into English. [1]
The Piano Teacher (French: La Pianiste, lit. 'The Pianist') is a 2001 erotic psychological drama film written and directed by Michael Haneke , based on the 1983 novel of the same name by Elfriede Jelinek .
Alexander Borovsky was born in Mitau, Russian Empire (now Jelgava, Latvia) on March 18, 1889. [1] His first piano teacher was his mother, a pupil of Vasily Safonov. He graduated from the St. Petersburg Conservatory in 1912. [2] He created great attention in the 1912 Anton Rubinstein competition which he won. [2]
Jonathan Powell, piano. Toccata TOCC 044, CD, released 2009. The Contrapuntal Sketches were written in the 1930s. With this work Goldenweiser can perhaps stake claim as being the first Russian composer to write a set of polyphonic pieces in each of the major and minor keys, all of which appear on this recording. [9]
In the early twentieth century, members of the Russian gentry gather at the rural estate of Anna Petrovna Voynitseva, a general’s widow. Among the guests are Dr. Triletsky, the creditor Mr. Petrin, Porfiry Semyonovich Glagolev (an admirer of Anna Petrovna), and neighbors Mikhail Vasilyevich Platonov and his wife, Sashenka.
The Russian Musical Society (RMS) (Russian: Русское музыкальное общество) was the first music school in Russia open to the general public. It was launched in 1859 by the Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna and Anton Rubinstein , one of the few notable Russian pianists and composers of the day.
Marina Yakhlakova (Russian: Марина Владимировна Яхлакова; born 20 July 1991) is a prizewinning Russian classical pianist. [1] She began learning to play aged 5. After four years of private coaching with Vitaly Mishchenko she continued her professional education at the Gnessin State Musical College for gifted children ...
Gnessin sisters (Ольга, Елена, Евгения, Мария, Елизавета) Originally known as the Gnessin Institute, it was established on February 15, 1895 by three sisters: Evgenia Fabianovna, Elena Fabianovna, and Maria Fabianovna Gnessin. [2]