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Heinrich Gustav Neuhaus (Polish: Henryk (Henry) Neuhaus, Russian: Ге́нрих Густа́вович Нейга́уз, Genrikh Gustavovič Nejgauz, 12 April [O.S. 31 March] 1888 – 10 October 1964) was a Russian [1] [need quotation to verify] pianist and teacher. Part of a musical dynasty, he grew up in a Polish-speaking household. [2]
Nikolai Sergeyevich Zverev (Russian: Николай Серге́евич Зве́рев, sometimes transliterated Nikolai Zveref; 25 March [O.S. 13 March] 1833 – 12 October [O.S. 30 September] 1893) was a Russian pianist and teacher known for his pupils Alexander Siloti, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Alexander Scriabin, Konstantin Igumnov, Alexander Goldenweiser, and others.
Josef Lhévinne [a] [1] (13 December 1874 – 2 December 1944) [2] was a Russian pianist and piano teacher. Lhévinne wrote a short book in 1924 that is considered a classic: Basic Principles in Pianoforte Playing. Asked how to say his name, he told The Literary Digest it was lay-VEEN. [3]
Alexander Yevgenyevich Kobrin (Александр Кобрин) (born March 20, 1980) is a Russian and American music teacher and pianist. At the age of five, he enrolled in the Gnessin Special School of Music, where his primary teacher was Tatiana Zelikman.
Nikolai Lugansky was born on 26 April 1972 in Moscow, Russia, to research scientist parents.At the age of five, before he had learned to read music, he played a Beethoven piano sonata learned completely by ear. [4]
He was the teacher of some of the best Russian pianists, notably Alexander Scriabin, Nikolai Medtner, Josef Lhévinne and Rosina Bessie (later Lhévinne). He also taught the noted teacher and theorist Madame Maria Levinskaya, and Marthe Servine, a French-American composer and pianist.See: List of music students by teacher: R to S#Vasily Safonov.
His first piano teacher at the Conservatory was Edward Langer. After a year's interruption in his studies, Taneyev studied again with Langer. He also joined the theory class of Nikolai Hubert and, most importantly, the composition class of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. [1] In 1871, Taneyev studied piano with the Conservatory's founder, Nikolai ...
Born in Irkutsk, Soviet Union, Matsuev is the only child of two musicians, his mother being a piano teacher and his father a pianist and composer. He demonstrated a musical ear at age 3, when he reproduced on the piano at home a melody that he heard on television. [1] His father subsequently became his first piano teacher.