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Name
  
Konstantin Igumnov

Role
  
Pianist

Education
  
Moscow Conservatory


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Died
  
March 24, 1948, Moscow, Russia

Similar People
  
Yakov Flier, Naum Shtarkman, Lev Oborin, Berthold Goldschmidt, Issay Dobrowen

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Konstantin Nicolayevich Igumnov (Russian: Константи́н Никола́евич Игу́мнов; May 1 [O.S. April 19], 1873, Lebedyan, Tambov Governorate, – March 24, 1948) was a Russian pianist and the teacher of many Russian pianists.

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Biography

Igumnov studied under Nikolai Zverev, and at Moscow Conservatory under Alexander Siloti and Pavel Pabst. He took theory and composition courses from Sergei Taneyev, Anton Arensky and Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov. In 1898-9 he was pianoforte teacher at the Tiflis music-school of the Russian Music Society. From 1899 he was Professor at the Moscow Conservatory, where his life's work was carried out. He recorded 6 pieces on piano roll for the Welte-Mignon reproducing piano in 1910.

Among his many students were Bolesław Kon, Oleg Boshniakovich, Naum Shtarkman, Elena Beckman-Shcherbina, Yakov Flier, Boris Moiseyevitch Berlin, Lev Oborin, Maria Grinberg, Andrzej Wasowski, Ryszard Bakst, Tengiz Amirejibi, Anatoly Nikolayevich Alexandrov, Natalia Satina (wife of Rachmaninoff), Aleksandr Iokheles, Bella Davidovich, Rosa Tamarkina, and the conductor Issay Dobrowen.

A four-record (LP) set of Igumnov's recordings was issued by Melodiya on 33C 10-05519-26.

Honours and awards

  • Order of Lenin
  • Order of the Red Banner of Labour
  • People's Artist of USSR, 1946
  • Stalin Prize, 1946
  • Welte-Mignon Piano Rolls

  • Catalog no. 2061: Rachmaninoff - Prelude, Op. 23, No. 1, f#
  • Catalog no. 2062: Rachmaninoff - Prelude, Op. 23, No. 6, Eb
  • Catalog no. 2063: Scriabin - Sonata-Fantasie, Op. 19, No. 2, g#
  • Catalog no. 2064: Brahms - Intermezzo, Op. 118, No. 6, eb
  • Catalog no. 2065: Rachmaninoff - "Fantasy Pieces", Op. 3, No. 2, c#: Prelude
  • Catalog no. 2066: Arensky - By the Seashore, Op. 52, No. 4, Gb
  • References

    Konstantin Igumnov Wikipedia