Tatiana Nikolayeva

Tatyana Petrovna Nikolaeva (Russian Татьяна Петровна Николаева, born May 4, 1924 in Beschiza, now part of Bryansk, † November 22, 1993 in Santa Monica, United States) was a Soviet pianist.

Life

She studied since 1942 at the Moscow Central School of Music at Alexander Gold Weiser piano and then moved to the Moscow Conservatory, where she piano from 1947 and in 1950 he studied composition Yevgeny Golubev. Since 1945, she then joined successfully first in the Eastern Bloc, soon after, but also in the West on. Since 1959, she taught at the Moscow Conservatory, where she was appointed professor in 1965.

She won the first Leipzig Bach Competition in 1950. Jury member Dmitri Shostakovich wrote for them, inspired by Bach's Well -Tempered Clavier, 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op 87, which they brought with great success in 1951 premiered and recorded three times in the course of their lives.

As a composer, she created works especially for the piano or chamber music ensembles.

Swell

• Alain Paris: Classical Music in the 20th Century, 2nd Edition, dtv, Munich 1995; ISBN 3-423-32501-1
• Krzysztof Meyer: Dimitri Shostakovich pp. 353-355, Schott Musik International, Mainz 1998, ISBN 3-254-08376-8