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By Barrie Martyn

ISBN-10: 0859679594

ISBN-13: 9780859679596

Nicholas Medtner (1880-1951) has continually been a overlooked determine within the heritage of Russian track, and but his buddy Rachmaninoff thought of him the best of up to date composers. He wrote 3 superb piano concertos, a couple of hundred solo piano compositions, together with a cycle of fourteen sonatas totally useful to be set along these of Scriabin and Prokofiev, and lots of attractive songs. He was once additionally an outstanding pianist. Leaving Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution, Medtner lived for a time in Germany and France earlier than ultimately settling in London, the place he handed the ultimate 16 years of his existence. the current paintings is the 1st to inform the total tale of his eventful existence and to contemplate in flip each one of his compositions. the writer has drawn on Medtner?s personal correspondence and writings and picked up the memories of these who knew him for my part to construct a accomplished photo of an excellent, if nonetheless principally unrecognised, musician.

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