Nicolai Soloviev

Nikolai Solovyov Feopemptowitsch (born 27 Apriljul / May 9 1846greg in Petrozavodsk, .. .. † 14 Dezemberjul / December 27 1916greg in Petrograd ) was a Russian composer, music teacher and critic.

Solovyov taught at the conservatory of Saint Petersburg. He composed operas, orchestral works, songs and piano pieces. Among his pupils was, inter alia, the Polish composer Roman Statkowski.

Operas

• Kuznec Vakula (after Nikolai Gogol ), 1875, UA 1880
• Cordelia, (after Victorien Sardou ), 1881-84, UA 1885, revised as Mest, UA 1898
• Domik v Kolomne ( The house in Kolomna ) by Alexander Pushkin, unfinished
• Slovo o polku Igoreve ( Igor song), unfinished

Source

• Hugo Riemann: Handbook of music history: bd. 3.t. The music of the 18th and 19th centuries. Breitkopf & Härtel 1913, p 364
• Italian Opera - Nikolay Soloviev
• Operone.de - Solovyov, Nikolai Feopemptovič