Author : Nicolas Madtner

Description

Author : Nicolas Madtner

Description

Nicolas Medtner, born on January 5, 1880, in Moscow and passing away on November 13, 1951, in London, was a multifaceted musician who excelled as a composer, teacher, and pianist. After completing his piano studies, he pursued private composition lessons under Sergej Tanejew. His concert tours, predominantly featuring his own compositions, took him across Europe and North America. In his later years, he received financial support from the Maharaja of Mysore, which facilitated numerous recordings of his works. Recently, there has been a growing interest in Medtner's music, particularly in Anglo-Saxon countries, as it serves as a link between the traditional Moscow School, exemplified by Tchaikovsky, and classical-romantic German music. Many of his piano compositions are characterized by their virtuosic demands. The Fairy Tales, Op. 51, composed in 1928, draw heavily from the folk music of Russia, possibly reflecting Medtner's feelings of isolation and rootlessness during his self-imposed exile. The revised edition of this work is based on the original print published by Wilhelm Zimmermann in Leipzig in 1929 and incorporates handwritten annotations made by Medtner himself, which were derived from the Soviet complete edition.