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Samuil Yevgenyevich Feinberg (Russian: Самуи́л Евге́ньевич Фе́йнберг, also Samuel; 26 May 1890, Odessa – 22 October 1962, Moscow) was a Russian and Soviet composer and pianist.

Biography

Born in Odessa, Feinberg lived in Moscow from 1894 and studied with Alexander Goldenweiser at the Moscow Conservatory.[1] He also studied composition privately under Nikolai Zhilyayev.[2] He graduated from the Conservatory in 1911, after which he embarked upon a career as a solo pianist, while composing on the side. However, he was soon sent to fight in the First World War for Russia until he became ill and was discharged.[3] In 1922, he joined the faculty at the Moscow Conservatory, relaunching his pianistic career.[4] By 1930, due to the political repressions in Stalin's Russia, Feinberg's concert activities became limited. He made only two foreign trips in the 1930s: Vienna in 1936 and Brussels in 1938; hence he is generally not well known outside Russia. In 1946, he was awarded the Stalin Prize.[5]

Feinberg was the first pianist to perform the complete The Well-Tempered Clavier by Bach in concert in the USSR.[6] He is most remembered today for his complete recording of it, and many other works from the classical and romantic eras. He also composed three piano concertos, a dozen piano sonatas (private recordings exist of him playing his piano Sonatas 1, 2, 9 and 12[7]), as well as fantasias and other works for the instrument. Pianist Tatiana Nikolayeva said that each of his sonatas was a "poem of life".^{[citation needed]} Feinberg has been called "A musical heir to Scriabin",[8] who heard the young pianist play his fourth sonata and praised it highly.[9]

He was a life-long bachelor. He lived with his brother Leonid, who was a poet and painter. He died in 1962, aged 72.

Honours and awards

• Stalin Prize – 1946
• Order of Lenin
• Honoured Artist of the RSFSR (1937)

Works

Compositions for solo piano

Concertante

• Op. 20: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major (1931)
• Op. 36: Piano Concerto No. 2 in D major (1944)
• Op. 44: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor (1947)

For piano and voice

Violin sonatas

• Op. 12: Violin Sonata No. 1 (1912, incomplete)
• Op. 46: Violin Sonata No. 2 (1955–56)

References

External links

• Skalkottas Feinberg Society
• Samuil Feinberg discography at Discogs
• Samuel Feinberg: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
• Works by or about Samuil Feinberg at Internet Archive
• 'The Composer and The Performer' at Stanford School of Mathematics

На других языках

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[de] Samuil Jewgenjewitsch Feinberg

Samuil Jewgenjewitsch Feinberg (auch: Samuel Feinberg; russisch Самуил Евгеньевич Фейнберг; * 14.jul. / 26. Mai 1890greg. in Odessa; † 22. Oktober 1962 in Moskau) war ein russischer Pianist und Komponist. Er zählt zu den bedeutendsten Vertretern der russischen Klavierschule.

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- [en] Samuil Feinberg

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[es] Samuil Feinberg

Samuil Yevgenyevich Feinberg (en ruso, Самуи́л Евге́ньевич Фе́йнберг, también Samuel; Odessa, 26 de mayo de 1890-Moscú, 22 de octubre de 1962) fue un compositor y pianista ruso y soviético .

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[ru] Фейнберг, Самуил Евгеньевич

Самуи́л Евге́ньевич Фе́йнберг (1890 — 1962) — русский и советский пианист, музыкальный педагог и композитор. Заслуженный деятель искусств РСФСР (1937). Лауреат Сталинской премии второй степени (1946).

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