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New light on Nikolay Medtner as pianist and teacher
This dissertation introduces the ‘Edna Iles’s Medtner Collection’ (EIMC), held by the British Library in London, and provides a detailed analysis of her ‘Notes on the Interpretation of Medtner’s Works’. Nikolay Medtner (1880–1951) was one of Russia’s leading, early-20th-century composers, who spent …
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Nikolai Medtner's Forgotten Melodies Op. 39: Exploring The Narrative Mosaic Of The Cycle
Nikolai Medtner, a Russian composer, pianist, and pedagogue, bridged the Late Romantic and Modernist periods, yet he firmly opposed the modernistic trends of his time. In his essay, The Muse and the Fashion, he critiqued modernism's complexity and novelty as a mere trend, advocating for music that …
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Symmetrical Features of Nikolai Medtner's Language: The Grzovaya Sonata, Opus 53 No. 2
Nikolai Medtner's works evidence an intense interest in symmetrical designs. This concern is manifest at all levels, from the large scale proportions of his numerous ingenious sonata forms to the symmetrically constructed themes and motives. Medtner's works include several instances of palindromic …
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Nietzsche's orphans: music and the search for unity in revolutionary Russia, 1905-1921
… images of universal historical progress. Nikolai Medtner (1879-1951) embodied an “Imperial” worldview, in which musical style was imbued with an eternal significance which transcended the divisions of nation. The compositions of Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) were seen as the expression of a …