Tatiana Nikolayeva

Tatiana Petrovna Nikolayeva (Russian: Татья́на Петро́вна Никола́ева, Tat'jana Petrovna Nikolajeva; May 4, 1924 – November 22, 1993) was a pianist, composer, and teacher from the Soviet Union.

For the Soviet politician, see Tatyana Nikolayeva (politician).

Tatyana Petrovna Nikolayeva

Life

Nikolayeva was born in Bezhitsa,[1] in the Bryansk district, on May 4, 1924.[2] Her mother was a professional pianist and studied at the Moscow Conservatory under the renowned pedagogue Alexander Goldenweiser, and her father was an amateur violinist and cellist.[2] Nikolayeva won first prize in the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in Leipzig, which was founded to mark the bicentenary of Bach's death in 1750. Dmitri Shostakovich, who was a member of the jury, composed and dedicated the 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87, to her: it remained an important part of her piano repertoire.[2]

She sat as a jury member on international competitions such as the Paloma O'Shea Santander International Piano Competition,[3] the International Tchaikovsky Competition and the Leeds Piano Competition.[2] She recorded her own transcription of Sergei Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf.[4] Nikolayeva was the teacher of Nikolai Lugansky.[5] Among her other students were András Schiff, whom she taught in summer courses at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar, [6] and Michael Korstick, whom she taught during her master classes at Musikhochschule Cologne, Germany.

She died on November 22, 1993 in San Francisco, nine days after succumbing to a brain haemorrhage during a performance of one of the Op. 87 fugues at the Herbst Theatre.[2][7]

As James Campbell-Methuen commented in her obituary, "Aside from the Shostakovich, though, Tatiana Nikolayeva will be remembered as a Bach player who flung stylistic considerations to the winds and played the music with an irrepressible musical intelligence and knowledge of the resources of her chosen instrument."[2]

Partial repertoire

Compositions
  • Violin Concerto (1972)[9]
  • Symphony (1955; rev. 1958)
  • 24 Concert Études, Op. 13 (1951–53)[10]
  • Piano Quintet (1947)

References
  1. "The Prokofiev Page – Recordings". Archived from the original on December 27, 2005.
  2. "Obituary: Tatiana Nikolayeva". The Independent. November 27, 1993. Archived from the original on May 26, 2022.
  3. Paloma O’Shea Santander International Piano Competition “Winners, members of the jury and artistic guests”
  4. "scribd". Archived from the original on June 11, 2014.
  5. "Nikolai Lugansky". www.kennedy-center.org. Retrieved October 17, 2020.
  6. Schiff, András (April 2, 2020). Music Comes Out of Silence. Orion Publishing Group, Limited. ISBN 978-1-4746-1527-3.
  7. "Tatiana Nikolayeva (Piano, Arranger) - Short Biography". www.bach-cantatas.com.
  8. "Tatiana Nikolayeva (piano) on Hyperion Records". Hyperion Records.
  9. "Russian Soviet and Post Soviet Concertos page 1- February 2011 MusicWeb-International". Archived from the original on January 17, 2013. Retrieved October 17, 2012.
  10. "Pianist Tatiana Nikolayeva | website in memoriam of Tatiana Nikolayeva". www.tatiana-nikolayeva.info.


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