Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev (1856 - 1915), was a pupil of Tchaikovsky, and became a composer, pianist, and teacher in his own right. He was the first pupil in the history of the Moscow Conservatory to win the gold medal both for composition and for performing. As a pianist, he performed the Moscow premiere of Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto. As a teacher his students included Alexander Scriabin, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Reinhold Glière, and Nikolai Medtner.
As a composer, Taneyev's output includes four symphonies and nine completed string quartets. The Canzona in f minor performed today was originally scored for clarinet and strings in 1883. It is often heard in an arrangement the composer made for cello. Alexander Bedenko
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Sergei Taneyev
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Recorded on 02/07/2007, uploaded on 02/04/2009
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Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev (1856 - 1915), was a pupil of Tchaikovsky, and became a composer, pianist, and teacher in his own right. He was the first pupil in the history of the Moscow Conservatory to win the gold medal both for composition and for performing. As a pianist, he performed the Moscow premiere of Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto. As a teacher his students included Alexander Scriabin, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Reinhold Glière, and Nikolai Medtner.
As a composer, Taneyev's output includes four symphonies and nine completed string quartets. The Canzona in f minor performed today was originally scored for clarinet and strings in 1883. It is often heard in an arrangement the composer made for cello. Alexander Bedenko
More music by Sergei Taneyev
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String Quartet No. 6 in B-Flat Major, Op. 19
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