Alexei Lubimov

Alexei Borisovich Lyubimov (Russian Алексей Борисович Любимов; born September 16, 1944 in Moscow ) is a Russian pianist, artist, harpsichord and piano teacher.

Life

Alexei Lyubimov started in 1963, studying piano at the conservatory in his hometown of Moscow, in the class of Heinrich Neuhaus. Later he taught at the conservatory itself.

Three years earlier, Lyubimov had won an all-Russian piano competition and prizes in international competitions in Rio de Janeiro and Montreal. Lyubimov was known in 1968 when he performed works by John Cage and Terry Riley to the Russian premiere in Moscow. He also attracted the attention from the ideological leadership of the Soviet state to itself, endeavored to thwart the career of the pianist. Only in 1987 was able to undertake international concert tours of the virtuoso again. Alexei Lyubimov was in the years 1968 to 1975 Artists of premieres of Russian composers such as Alfred Schnittke, Sofia Gubaidulina and Walentyn Sylwestrow, but also took Arnold Schoenberg, Anton von Webern, Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen and György Ligeti to his repertoire. In 1988 he founded the sign of glasnost, the Moscow avant-garde festival " Alternativa ".

In addition to the commitment to the Modern Lyubimov employed from the mid- 1970s with the interpretation of early music on original instruments. In 1976 he founded the Moscow Baroque Quartet, together with Tatjana Gryndenko the Moscow Chamber Academy. For Erato he played the piano sonatas of Mozart, collected on a fortepiano from the time of the composer. These recordings established him as a Mozart expert.

1992 occurs Alexei Lyubimov as a soloist and in chamber ensembles with Andreas Staier, Heinrich Schiff and Natalia Gutman. Alexei Lyubimov teaches a master class at the Mozarteum in Salzburg.