Tatiana Nikolayeva

Tatyana Petrovna Nikolayeva in 1956

Tatiana Petrovna Nikolayeva (Template:Langx; May 4, 1924Template:Spaced ndashNovember 22, 1993) was a Soviet and Russian pianist, composer, and teacher.

Life

Nikolayeva was born in Bezhitsa,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> in the Bryansk district, on May 4, 1924.<ref name="auto1" /> 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.<ref name="auto1">Template:Cite web</ref> In 1950, 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.<ref name="auto1" />

She sat as a jury member on international competitions such as the Paloma O'Shea Santander International Piano Competition,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> the International Tchaikovsky Competition and the Leeds Piano Competition.<ref name="auto1"/> She recorded her own transcription of Sergei Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Nikolayeva was the teacher of Nikolai Lugansky.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Among her other students were András Schiff, whom she taught in summer courses at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> 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.<ref name="auto1"/><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

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."<ref name="auto1"/>

Partial repertoire

• Preludes, Op. 34 (Shostakovich)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87 (Shostakovich)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Piano Concerto No. 1 (Tchaikovsky)
• Piano Concerto No. 2 (Shostakovich)

Compositions

• Violin Concerto (1972)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Symphony (1955; rev. 1958)Template:CN
• 24 Concert Études, Op. 13, in all major and minor keys (1951–53)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Piano Quintet (1947)Template:CN

External links

• website in memoriam of Tatiana Nikolayeva
• Short biography Template:Webarchive and photograph from Hyperion Records
• Interview with Tatiana Nikolayeva by Bruce Duffie, October 16, 1992