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	- Classical Music Dictionary - Free MP3
		Nikolai Medtner was born in Moscow on 5 January 1880.
		Medtner however chose to devote himself to composition, and under the guidance of Taneyev mastered the rules of harmony and counterpoint to an astonishing degree.
		Medtner resigned from teaching after one year in order to devote his time fully to composition, and several of his large-scale works date from this time, such as the Sonata in G minor, Op.
	www.karadar.it /Dictionary/medtner.html (680 words)

	Nikolai Medtner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nikolai Karlovich Medtner (Николай Карлович Метнер) (January 5, 1880 – November 13, 1951) was a Russian composer and pianist.
		The youngest of five children, Nikolai Medtner was born in Moscow on the Russian Orthodox Christmas Eve.
		Medtner’s one book, The muse and the fashion, being a defence of the foundations of the art of music (1935, republished 1957 but may not be in print) was a statement of his artistic credo and reaction to some of the trends of the time.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nikolai_Karlovich_Medtner (2436 words)

	Nikolai Medtner Biography from Basic Famous People - Biographies of Celebrities and other Famous People
		The youngest of five children, Nikolai Medtner was born in Moscow on the Russian Orthodox Christmas Eve.
		Nonetheless, it is undeniable that Medtner possessed considerable skill in writing heartfelt melody of rare beauty, and along with his uncanny skill in developing thematic material, his oeuvre constitutes an ideal balance of "head" and "heart".
		Medtner’s one book, The muse and the fashion, being a defence of the foundations of the art of music (1935, republished 1957 but may not be in print) was a statement of his artistic credo and reaction to some of the trends of the time.
	www.basicfamouspeople.com /index.php?aid=5872 (2203 words)

	Nikolai Medtner - Piano Works (Gunnar Sama)
		Nikolai Medtner (1880-1951) is usually compared to his friend and contemporary Sergi Rachmaninoff.
		Medtner's appeal is less direct than his friend's, but at the same time it is more complex and often more surprising.
		Medtner's grasp of form is such that every repetition is slightly changed, each time a phrase returns it seems to comment on its previous appearance.
	www.classical-music-review.org /reviews/Medtner.html (579 words)

	Nikolai Karlovich Medtner - Voyager, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Nikolai Karlovich Medtner (Николай Карлович Метнер) (January 5 1880, Moscow – November 13 1951, London) was a Russian composer and pianist.
		Medtner first took lessons from his mother until the age of ten, when he entered the Moscow Conservatory.
		Medtner was already in declining health but managed to record all of his concertos plus numerous songs and shorter works before his death in 1951.In some of these recordings he accompanied Benno Moiseiwitsch in two-piano music; they also feature Elisabeth Schwarzkopf singing several of his lieder, including The Muse, a Pushkin setting from 1913.
	voyager.in /Nikolay_Medtner (1878 words)

	Medtner, Nicolai Karlovich
		In the five years left to him Medtner recorded all three of his piano concerti, a few of his fourteen sonatas, and many songs and short piano pieces, and he was able to complete the piano quintet he had worked on for decades.
		Medtner remains forgotten except among a small body of devotees, his music regarded as retrograde, over-busy, derivative; Rachmaninoff without the tunes.
		Medtner's aesthetic is in fact very modern in its preference for compression and linear expressivity.
	stevenestrella.com /composers/composerfiles/medtner1951.html (851 words)

	Medtner, Nicolai Karlovich
		In the five years left to him Medtner recorded all three of his piano concerti, a few of his fourteen sonatas, and many songs and short piano pieces, and he was able to complete the piano quintet he had worked on for decades.
		Medtner remains forgotten except among a small body of devotees, his music regarded as retrograde, over-busy, derivative; Rachmaninoff without the tunes.
		Medtner's aesthetic is in fact very modern in its preference for compression and linear expressivity.
	www.stevenestrella.com /composers/composerfiles/medtner1951.html (851 words)

	Welcome to Medtner.com
		Nikolai Medtner was born in Moscow on January 5, 1880, descended from Livonians - Germans long settled in the Baltic countries - though throughout his life he considered himself thoroughly Russian, inseparably connected with his homeland and the whole of Russian culture.
		The composer's father, Karl Petrovich, born Estonian, instilled in Nikolai this profound love for poetry, and for literature and art, creating of their home a center for the discussion of philosophy and aesthetics.
		Medtner's music continued to be published in the 1920s, but at the start of the new decade the official attitude toward the composer changed, and performances of his work were discouraged.
	www.medtner.com /life.php (725 words)

	Classical Net Review - Medtner - Piano Concerti, etc.
		Medtner's three concerti are all mature works, finished in 1918, 1927, and 1943, respectively.
		Structurally, Medtner's third concerto follows the most unusual plan of the three, as one might expect from its subtitle "Ballade." Medtner connects two huge movements by an "Interludium" of roughly a minute-and-a-half, and he makes no reference that I can find to classical form.
		Medtner refers to the shape of Russian Orthodox hymns and to the Dies irae chant.
	www.classical.net /music/recs/reviews/h/hyp66580a.html (1423 words)

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		Medtner's mother was a musician, and though Medtner chose music as a profession at a very early age, it was later remarked that few musicians ever frequented the Medtner home, which was famous rather as a centre for the discussion of philosophy and aesthetics.
		His concerts still linger in the memory of musicians today, who speak of his glowing sound and strikingly integrated playing, giving the effect of a string quartet or ensemble in which the inner voices were clear, the rhythmic pulse infectious, and the bass notes and harmonies supported by masterly pedalling.
		These qualities can be heard in Medtner's recordings, but it is significant that the sound of this performances in the concert halls can be so readily recalled, after the passing of more than half a century.
	www.phoenixcd.com /search/BioInfo.cfm?Biography__Performer=MEDT (879 words)

	MEDTNER Vol 8 Tozer CHANDOS CHAN10266 [JF]: Classical CD Reviews- Feb 2005 MusicWeb-International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		I must confess that I am always a little disappointed with the music of Nikolai Medtner, and much more to the point I am not really sure why this is the case.
		However, Medtner, he describes as having an austere as opposed to flamboyant romanticism, and having considerable emotional depth instead of wearing his heart on his sleeve.
		Medtner was perceived as a difficult composer by both publishers and the public.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2005/Feb05/Medtner_Tozer.htm (1338 words)

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		Medtner studied at the Moscow Conservatory, where he later taught the piano intermittently, before leaving Russia in 1921 to settle first in Paris and then, in 1935, in England, where he remained until his death.
		Most of Medtner's compositions are for the piano, apart from a large number of songs to Russian texts and a small number of chamber works.
		In style his music may be generally compared with that of Rachmaninov, although he writes in a distinctive enough language that is recognizably his own.
	www.naxos.com /composer/medtner.htm (105 words)

	[CD-75003] Earl Wild: Forgotten Melodies / Ivory Classics Online
		Like Sergei Rachmaninov and Alexander Scriabin, Nikolai Medtner was one of the last great composer / pianists of the Romantic period and, like his Russian peers, he found the piano to be the center of his creative focus and compositional output.
		Wild recorded the "First Improvisation for RCA back in the 70s.) Curious Medtner would call this an improvisation, when it's actually a series of interwoven Rachmaninov/Scriabinesque variations (on something he calls "The Mermaid's Song").
		Wild has always been an incredibly fine artist, pianist and virtuoso (with a techincal prowess second to none), yet with the heart of a romantic.
	www.ivoryclassics.com /releases/75003 (363 words)

	Amazon.com: Medtner: Complete Piano Sonatas, Forgotten Melodies / Hamelin: Music: Marc-André Hamelin,Marc-Andre ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Following the development of Medtner through his piano sonatas, it is clear how his style evolved from one that had a lot in common with early Scriabin into a personal one characterized by "classical" elements like harmonic and contrapuntal development.
		The inclusion of Medtner's forgotten melodies further illustrate the composer's commitment to a catalogue of distinctive masterworks, in stead of producing easier pieces that would have endeared him to a much larger audience.
		medtner is at the end of a peculiar succession, out of hummel and through alkan, that cultivated keyboard virtuosity for its own sake and attempted to elevate virtuosity into a musical language in itself, largely separated from emotionally or imaginatively involving musical structure -- essentially the kinetic equivalent of serialism.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000DG21?v=glance (2362 words)

	NIKOLAI MEDTNER: THE COMPLETE PIANO SONATAS SERIES I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Medtner has lain overlooked somewhere between tile genius of Rachmaninoff and Scriabin and the juggernaut of Prokofievs ‘modernist’ masterpieces.
		compositional vogues and musical trends that characterized the early 20th century, composer-pianist Nikolai Medtner (1880—1951) remained faithful to the standard of clarity of purpose he learned from a lifetime of active performance of’ the classical masters.
		Nikolai Medtner’s fourteen piano sonatas, composed over more than three decades, are landmarks of the modern piano literature—as organic and uncompromising as the Beethoven models, as fanciful and exploratory as Scriabin’s.
	www.midi-classics.com /p5856a.htm (290 words)

	Composer Page - Nikolai Medtner
		Medtner: Piano Concerto No 3 in E minor - Interludium and Finale (opening) [7'09]
		Medtner: Vergessene Weisen (Forgotten Melodies) Op 39 - Primavera [3'31]
		Medtner: Piano Sonata in F minor Op 5 - Finale: Allegro risoluto [7'40]
	www.hyperion-records.co.uk /composer_page.asp?name=medtner&hidecovers=1 (298 words)

	Premiere Music Distributors - NIKOLAI MEDTNER : Piano Music Volume 2 - Hamish Milne
		NIKOLAI MEDTNER : Piano Music Volume 2 - Hamish Milne
		Nikolai Karlovich Medtner was a Russian Composer and pianist.
		He composed somewhat over sixty groups of works given opus numbers (and a few works not,) including works for piano solo, with violin, voice, quartet, second piano, and with orchestra.
	www.premieremusic.net /catalog/cd.php?cd=CRD3339 (494 words)

	:: The Flying Inkpot :: Benno Moiseiwitsch Disc 7 - NAXOS
		There are more dramatic renderings of this prelude, but it is perhaps Moiseiwitsch who brings the suggestion of a tear on the face of Rachmaninoff others miss.
		Rachmaninoff named Medtner the best of his conservatory class, yet Medtner simply could not find the inspiration to enhance the craft of his effort.
		As the liner notes state, Medtner was fortunate Moiseiwitsch gave his works exposure.
	inkpot.com /classical/naxmoise.html (842 words)

	Records International catalogue October 1998
		NIKOLAI MEDTNER (1880-1951): Sonata in F Minor, Op.
		It is thus a splendid surprise to find him recording the complete Medtner sonatas - a part of the romantic repertoire which, while not exactly arcane, has not received this sort of dedicated advocacy from a single artist of Hamelin's stature.
		Exactly why anyone still has a problem with the "difficulty" of Medtner's music is not clear; these works, from the astonishingly accomplished Op.
	www.recordsinternational.com /RICatalogOct98.html (11710 words)

	Nikolai Karlovich Medtner - Classical music composer
		Album of Selected Pieces By Medtner, Nikolai (1880-1951) Metner.
		411 for voice and piano By N. Medtner.
		1 for voice and piano By N. Medtner.
	www.classical-composers.org /comp/medtner (637 words)

	NIKOLAI MEDTNER: THE COMPLETE PIANO SONATAS SERIES II NIKOLAI MEDTNER
		SERIES II “For several generations of performers and audiences, Medtner has lain overlooked somewhere between the genius of Rachmaninoff and Scriabin and the juggernaut of Prokofiev's ‘modernist’ masterpieces.
		But he is not just a quintessential Russian com- poser; he is a master for all, and now perhaps his time has come.
		Faced with decades of shifting styles, compositional vogues and musical trends that characterized tile early 20th century, composer—pianist Nikolai Medtner (1880—1951) remained faithful to the standard of clarity of purpose he learned from a lifetime of active performance of the classical masters.
	www.midi-classics.com /p5857.htm (294 words)

	Romantic Piano Concerto Vol 8 - Medtner / Alexeev by Alexeev / Lazarev / Medtner CD
		Medtner: Piano Works Vol 1 / Geoffrey Tozer
		Medtner: Piano Works Vol 2 / Geoffrey Tozer
		Medtner, N. On a scale of 1 to 5 stars, with 5 stars being the best
	cduniverse.com /productinfo.asp?pid=1114722&style=music&... (318 words)

	NPR : Medtner
		Performance Today, September 15, 2005 · Though Nikolai Medtner's music can be touching, haunting at times, and lovely in general, very little of it gets performed these days.
		Pianist Gustavo Romero is a musical adventurer and has championed quite a few Medtner works.
		Romero talks with host Fred Child about the composer's music and plays Medtner's Canzona Serenata and Fairy Tale.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=4848671 (145 words)

	Find in a Library: An introduction to Nikolai Medtner and performance analysis in dialogue form of his works for two ...
		Find in a Library: An introduction to Nikolai Medtner and performance analysis in dialogue form of his works for two pianos - Russian round dance and Knight errant
		An introduction to Nikolai Medtner and performance analysis in dialogue form of his works for two pianos - Russian round dance and Knight errant
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	worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/7eec2f6682f29cf4a19afeb4da09e526.html (103 words)

	Medtner: Complete Piano Sonatas & Forgotten Melodies / Tozer by N. Medtner CD
		Medtner: Complete Piano Sonatas & Forgotten Melodies / Tozer by N. Medtner CD Composer
		Medtner: Complete Piano Sonatas & Forgotten Melodies / Tozer CD
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