Mikhail Bukinik
Mikhail Jewsejewitsch Bukinik (Russian: Михаил Евсеевич Букиник; * 1872 in Dubno, † 1947) was a Ukrainian cellist, composer, music teacher and music critic.
Life
Mikhail Bukinik was born in 1872 in Dubno in the area of Rovno in the Ukraine. It was found that a total of four family members, including his brother Isaac ( violinist, pedagogue, music critic ) and his two daughters chose the profession of a professional musician.
From 1885 to 1890 Bukinik attended the music school in Kharkov, where he was also a member of the Association of Russian music. During the next five years, he studied with A. Glen at the Moscow Conservatory. In his solo performances and concerts as a member of the orchestra, he played with musicians such as Sergei Taneyev, Nikolai Medtner, Konstantin Igumnov, Alexander Gold Weiser, Alexander Goedicke and W. Lambowskaja. Among his fellow students were such well-known musicians such as Ferruccio Busoni, Alexander Scriabin and Sergei Rachmaninoff. Studied at Bukinik in 1895.
This was followed by tours in Russia with the Symphony Orchestra by Dimitri Achscharumow. After a short stay in Berlin came Bukinik 1899 to Saratov, where he worked as a teacher at the " Mariinsky Institute of virtuous maiden " to 1904. From the same time his acquaintance with the famous painter Viktor Borisov - Musatov, a friendship which accompanied him in his life long. Pavel Kuznetsov was the second painter who was Bukinik very close. In 1901 he founded together with Borisov Musatov -, the field doctor and writer Vladimir Stanjukowitsch and his wife Nadezhda the so-called "English Club of Saratov ". 1902 it also participated Jelena Alexandrova, Musatows future wife.
In the next two years (1904-1906) Bukinik lived in Germany, France and Switzerland.
From 1906 he had many appearances in Moscow. He was also cello teacher at the prestigious Gnessins music school, which still exists as Gnessins Institute and enjoys an outstanding reputation. After the revolution in 1917 the school was temporarily closed, however.
From 1919 to 1922, Bukinik Professor at the Conservatory of Kharkov.
1922 emigrated Bukinik in the U.S., where he performed with a Ukrainian quartet and also played in a Ukrainian musical theater. In 1944, he published his memoirs and died three years later (1947).
A personality that shaped him since very early times and mentally accompanied them, was his classmate Sergei Rachmaninov, whose cello sonata he performed for the first time in Paris and thus made known the local public with the genius of this composer. As he himself wrote, Rachmaninoff remained for Bukinik always in his memoirs:
Bukinik is the author of several cello works, children's schools, and edited a number of works of Russian composers.