Alexander Borisovich Goldenweiser (or Goldenveyzer; ; 26 November 1961) was a Russian

Russians

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 pianist

Pianist

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, teacher

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, composer

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 and public figure.

Goldenweiser was born in Kishinev

Chisinau

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, Bessarabia

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 and studied at the Moscow Conservatory

Moscow Conservatory

The Moscow Conservatory is a higher musical education institution in Moscow, and the second oldest conservatory in Russia after St. Petersburg Conservatory. Along with the St...

 under Sergei Taneyev

Sergei Taneyev

Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev , was a Russian composer, pianist, teacher of composition, music theorist and author.-Life:...

 and Vassily Safonoff, winning the Gold Medal for Piano upon his graduation in 1897. He joined the faculty of the Conservatory shortly afterward, and over his long teaching career there his pupils included Grigory Ginzburg

Grigory Ginzburg

Grigory Romanovich Ginzburg was a Jewish-born, Russian pianist.-Biography:Ginzburg first studied with his mother before being accepted as a student in Alexander Goldenweiser's class at Moscow Conservatory. In 1927 he gained fourth prize in the Warsaw International Frederick Chopin Competition...

, Lazar Berman

Lazar Berman

Lazar Naumovich Berman was a Soviet Russian classical pianist. As a technician, Berman was extraordinary in terms of sheer evenness, control, and rhythmic panache, yet he always channeled his considerable craft toward musical ends....

, Samuil Feinberg

Samuil Feinberg

Samuil Yevgenyevich Feinberg was a Russian and Soviet composer and pianist. Raised in Moscow, he entered the Moscow Conservatory and studied under Alexander Goldenweiser. He is most remembered today for his complete recording of Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier and many transcriptions. Feinberg...

, Dmitry Kabalevsky, Galina Eguiazarova

Galina Eguiazarova

- Biography :Eguiazarova was born in Russia and studied at the Moscow Conservatoire in Moscow, where she was a disciple of Alexander Goldenweiser. Since 1961 she has devoted herseself to teaching, first in Moscow and later in Madrid at the Queen Sofía College of Music .She was the teacher of Maria...

, Nikolai Petrov, Nikolai Kapustin

Nikolai Kapustin

Nikolai Girshevich Kapustin is a Ukrainian Russian composer and pianist....

, Alexander Braginsky

Alexander Braginsky

-Life and work:He studied at the Moscow conservatory with Alexander Borisovich Goldenweiser, and, after Goldenweiser's death in 1961, with Theodore Gutman. In the early 1970s, he left Russia with his wife, Tatiana Remenikova, never to visit again until 2004...

, Sulamita Aronovsky

Sulamita Aronovsky

Sulamita Aronovsky, born in Lithuania, is a classical pianist and piano teacher who spent her formative years in Russia, moving to London in 1971.Her teachers include Lev Barenboim, Abram Schatzkes, Grigory Ginsburg and Alexander Goldenweiser....

, Tatiana Nikolayeva

Tatiana Nikolayeva

Tatiana Petrovna Nikolayeva was a Russian Soviet pianist, composer and teacher.-Early life:Nikolayeva was born in Bezhitsa in the Bryansk district on May 4, 1924...

, Dmitry Paperno

Dmitry Paperno

Dmitry Paperno is a Ukrainian concert pianist.Paperno won 6th Prize in the 1955 International Frederick Chopin Piano Competition, and then recorded and performed widely under the Soviet regime. He attended the Moscow Conservatory where he studied under Alexander Goldenweiser. Paperno recordeded...

, Oxana Yablonskaya

Oxana Yablonskaya

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, Nelly Akopian-Tamarina

Nelly Akopian-Tamarina

Nelly Akopian-Tamarina is a Russian pianist. Born in Moscow, she studied with Anaida Sumbatyan at the Moscow Central Music School. Later at the Moscow Conservatoire she was the last student of the legendary Alexander Borisovich Goldenweiser - associate and friend of Alexander Scriabin, Sergei...

, Dmitri Bashkirov and many others.

Rachmaninoff

Sergei Rachmaninoff

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's Second Suite, Op. 17, was dedicated to him as well as Medtner

Nikolai Medtner

Nikolai Karlovich Medtner was a Russian composer and pianist.A younger contemporary of Sergei Rachmaninoff and Alexander Scriabin, he wrote a substantial number of compositions, all of which include the piano...

's Lyric Fragments, Op. 23.

He made a number of highly regarded recordings as a pianist. He died in 1961, in the Moscow

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 region.

Honours and awards

• Stalin Prize, first class (1947)
• Two Orders of Lenin (including 9 March 1945)
• Order of the Red Banner of Labour
  Order of the Red Banner of Labour
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  , three times (27 April 1937, 29 April 1950, 9 March 1955)
• People's Artist of the USSR
  People's Artist of the USSR
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   (1946)

Selective discography

• Piano Trio in E minor, Op. 31. Leonid Kogan, violin. Mstislav Rostropovich
  Mstislav Rostropovich
  Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich, KBE , known to close friends as Slava, was a Soviet and Russian cellist and conductor. He was married to the soprano Galina Vishnevskaya. He is widely considered to have been the greatest cellist of the second half of the 20th century, and one of the greatest of...
  
  , cello. Composer, piano. Melodiya D-9123-4 (LP); released 1961
• Contrapuntal Sketches, Op. 12. Sonata Fantasia', Op. 37. 'Skazka, Op. 39. Jonathan Powell, piano. Toccata TOCC 044, CD, released 2009. The Contrapuntal Sketches were written in the 1930s. With this work Goldenweiser can perhaps stake claim as being the first Russian composer to write a set of polyphonic pieces in each of the major and minor keys, all of which appear on this recording.
• Russian Piano School, Vol 1: Alexander Goldenweiser. Music by Tchaikovsky, Arensky, Borodin, Rachmaninoff (also with G. Ginsburg), Medtner, Goldenweiser - original recordings 1946-1955 by Melodiya. NoNoise transfers distributed BMG 74321 25173 2