Elena Dolinskaya

London Harbor on the Way of Nikolai Medtner

This article is written in Russian. You can read it here.

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DOI 10.34690/33

Author Elena B. Dolinskaya

Affiliation Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory, Moscow, Russia

Email se.dolinskiy@gmail.com

ORCID

0000-0001-7936-3063

Abstract

The article is devoted to the London period of life of Nikolai Karlovich Medtner. In the biographies of prominent cultural figures of different nations and eras, one can often find an indication of a particular city that played a significant role in their creative path. For example, the life and work of Bach in Leipzig, Handel and Haydn in London, Schiller and Goethe in Weimar, Pushkin in Boldino, Turgenev and Liszt in Paris were studied as individual phenomena. Unable to return to his homeland, Nikolai Karlovich spent about fifteen years wandering around Europe and found at the end of his life a second home in the UK. Here, in London, he was waited not only by a safe haven, but also by new friends, students, performers, including fans of Medtner’s musical genius—above all, his piano performance and vocal music.

Keywords Nikolay Medtner, pianist composer, London, emigration, vocal music

For citation

Dolinskaya, E. B. “London Harbor on the Way of Nikolai Medtner.” Muzykal’naya akademiya [Music Academy], no. 1, 2020, pp. 24–33, doi:10.34690/33. (In Russ.)

London Harbor on the Way of Nikolai Medtner

London Harbor on the Way of Nikolai Medtner

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