Lev Nikolayevich Naumov was a Russian

Russians

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 classical pianist

Pianist

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, composer

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 and educator. Received a title of People's Artist of Russia

People's Artist of Russia

People's Artist of Russia, also sometimes translated as National Artist of Russia, is an honorary title granted to citizens of Russia.It succeeded both the all-Soviet union award People's Artist of the USSR , and more directly the local republic award, People's Artist of the RSFSR , after the...

 and was nicknamed the "Godfather of the Russian piano school".

Professor

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 Naumov studied with the legendary Heinrich Neuhaus

Heinrich Neuhaus

Heinrich Gustavovich Neuhaus was a Soviet pianist and pedagogue of German extraction. He taught at the Moscow Conservatory from 1922 to 1964. He was made a People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1956...

, becoming his assistant and eventually his successor. Naumov was a professor of piano at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory and a jury member in many international competitions. Professor

Professor

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 Naumov's studio produced some of the better-known pianists to emerge from Russia in the past 40 years. Among his students at different times were such pianists as Alexei Nasedkin

Aleksey Nasedkin

Aleksey Nasedkin is a Russian pianist and composer.A recipient of the People's Artist of the Russian Federation title, Nasedkin is the president of Russia's Schubert Society. He's a member of the Composers' Union of the USSR/RF and a professor at Moscow's Conservatory, where he has taught since...

, Vassily Lobanov, Vladimir Viardo

Vladimir Viardo

Vladimir Viardo, born in 1949 at Krasnia Polana in the Caucasus, USSR, is a Russian pianist.Viardo studied with Irina Naumova at the Gnessin State Musical College and later studied with Lev Naumov at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory where he remained as a student for six years. Naumov would...

, Andrei Gavrilov

Andrei Gavrilov

Andrei Vladimirovich Gavrilov is a Russian pianist.- Life :Gavrilov was born into a multinational family of artists in Moscow. His father was Vladimir Gavrilov , one of the leading Russian painters of the middle of the 20th century, through whom Gavrilov also has German ancestors...

, Andrey Diyev, Sergei Babayan

Sergei Babayan

Sergei Babayan is an Armenian-American concert pianist.-Biography:Babayan began his musical studies at age six with Luisa Markaryan. He studied under Lev Naumov and at the Moscow Conservatory under Vera Gornostayeva and Mikhail Pletnev. In 1989 Babayan travelled to the United States...

, Lola Astanova

Lola Astanova

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, Alexei Sultanov

Alexei Sultanov

Alexei Sultanov was a Russian-American classical pianist of Uzbek origin.His father was a cellist, his mother was a violinist, and his grandmother was a well-known Uzbek actress. At the age of 6, he began piano lessons in Tashkent with Tamara Popovich...

, Vladimir Soultanov, Alexander Kobrin

Alexander Kobrin

Alexander Kobrin is a Russian pianist.At age five, he enrolled in the Gnessin Special School of Music in Moscow where his primary teacher was Tatiana Zelikman...

, Dong-Hyek Lim

Dong-Hyek Lim

Dong-Hyek Lim is a South Korean classical pianist. Lim has previously studied with Arie Vardi at the Hochschule fuer Musik in Hannover and received the Samsung Culture Scholarship and the Ezoe Scholarship...

, Pavel Gintov

Pavel Gintov

Pavel Gintov is a classical pianist. Gintov currently studies with acclaimed Professor Nina Svetlanova at the Manhattan School of Music in New York City, where he is now completing his Doctoral studies.-Education:...

, Alexander Tselyakov

Alexander Tselyakov

Alexander Tselyakov is a Russian classical pianist and educator.Tselyakov was born in Baku, Azerbaijan and made his professional debut as soloist with the Azerbaijan State Symphony Orchestra in his native Soviet Union at the age of nine. He went on to study at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory...

, Nairi Grigorian

Nairi Grigorian

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and many others.

External links

• Recollection of Lev Nikolaevic Naumov at the Heinrich Neuhaus web site