Pavel Pabst

Christian Georg Paul Pabst (Russian Павел Августович Пабст / Pawel Augustowitsch Pabst, born May 27, 1854 in Königsberg ( Prussia), † June 9, 1897 in Moscow) was a Russian pianist, composer and teacher of German descent.

Life

He was the son of the composer August Pabst (1811-1885), the Director of the Riga Conservatory, and brother of Louis Pabst (1846-1903), founder of the Academy of Music in Melbourne.

He learned piano playing under the supervision of his father, August Pabst, then at the Vienna Music Academy with Anton Door.

In 1875 he began to teach in Riga. In 1878 he came to Russia and in 1881 professor at the Moscow Conservatory.

His students included, inter alia, Konstantin Nikolayevich Igumnov, Alexander Borisovich Gold Weiser, Alexander Fyodorovich Goedicke, Elena Beckman Shcherbina, Nikolai Karlovich Medtner, Georgi Eduardovich Conus, and Arseny Nikolayevich Koreshchenko.

Pabst also appeared as a pianist, in particular with the works of Robert Schumann and Franz Liszt.

He demonstrated his own works - like fantasies about the opera by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Pabst was a friend of Tchaikovsky, one suspects that he edited the piano part of the first piano concerto by Tchaikovsky. Tchaikovsky dedicated the Pabst Konzertpolonäse of the eighteen works Op. 72 (1893 ).

Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff dedicated to him the seven piano pieces Op. 10 (1894 ).

In addition to works for piano Pabst composed the Piano Trio and the Piano Concerto, Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein dedicated.

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