Wassily Sapellnikoff

Vasily Lvovitch Sapelnikov (Russian:. . Василий Львович Сапельников; * 21 Oktoberjul / November 2 1867greg in Odessa, † March 17, 1941 in San Remo ) was a Russian composer and virtuoso pianist especially.

He studied at the St. Petersburg Conservatory with Louis Brassin, after his death in 1884 with Sophie Menter and Anatoli Ljadow. Sapelnikov was then a professor at the Moscow Conservatory.

1888-1889 he accompanied Tchaikovsky on a concert tour through Europe. In Hamburg he played in 1889 at a concert of the Philharmonic Society whose first piano concerto, which was thought to be unplayable. The great success of this work made ​​him immediately famous. He played this piece as the first pianist in London, also with enormous success. Subsequently, he undertook concert tours throughout Europe and became a sought-after and respected concert pianist who was occasionally active as a conductor. From 1897 to 1899 he was a professor at the Moscow Conservatory, where among other Medtner counted among his students. In the spring of 1910 he took up twelve piano pieces for the Welte-Mignon reproducing piano, six of his own works.

Well in 1912 he went to Leipzig, lived up to the First World War and then in Munich and Berlin and from 1916 to 1922 back in Odessa. In 1923 he emigrated to Germany and later to Italy, where he died.