Nikita Magaloff (Born Magalashvili) (21 February (old style 8 February), 1912 - 26 December 1992) was a Georgian-Russian pianist. Maghalashvili (Magalashvili მაღალაშვილი or Maghaladze (Magaladze მაღალაძე is a Georgian noble family according to Cyril Events 362 - Athanasius returns to Alexandria. 1245 - Thomas, the first known Bishop of Finland Events 421 - Constantius III becomes co- Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. Year 1912 ( MCMXII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year starting Events 1481 - Battle of Westbrook - Holland defeats troops of Utrecht. Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) Georgia ( საქართველო, Sakartvelo) is a Transcontinental country in the Caucasus region situated at the dividing line between Russia (Россия Rossiya) or the Russian Federation ( Rossiyskaya Federatsiya) is a transcontinental Country extending
He was born to a Georgian noble family in St. Petersburg. Saint Petersburg ( tr: Sankt-Peterburg,) is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River Magaloff and his family left Russia in 1918 for Finland and then Paris, where he studied with Isidor Philipp. Isidor Philipp ( 2 September 1863 – 20 February 1958) was a French Pianist, Composer, and distinguished He also numbered Ravel and Prokofiev among his friends there. Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (Серге́й Серге́евич Проко́фьев Sergéj Sergéjevič Prokófjev) ( - 5 March 1953 was a Russian composer who
He was best known for his espousal of the music of Chopin, recording the complete piano works - the first time anyone had done so. While these recordings have been criticised for their failure to plumb the depths of Chopin's works, they were innovative for their textual fidelity and unsentimentality. Magaloff, for example, preferred and recorded Chopin's own manuscript versions of the valses rather than the familiar versions published posthumously by Julian Fontana. Julian (or Jules Fontana ( July 31, 1810 - December 23, 1869 was a Polish Pianist, Composer, Lawyer, Author
His interpretations of Mendelssohn are also striking, finding a vein of melancholy that is often missed. Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, born and generally known as Felix Mendelssohn (February 3 1809 &ndash November 4 1847 was a German Composer
Magaloff's playing carried the hallmarks of Philipp's elegant, refined style, though he himself rejected the sentimental interpretations of Philipp's generation (he was especially critical of Paderewski whom he believed had "falsified Chopin"). Ignacy Jan Paderewski GBE (November 18 1860 - June 29 1941 was a Polish Pianist, Composer, Diplomat, and politician and the He once described himself to the critic and writer Piero Rattalino as 'a vieux style pianist'.
His playing, however, underwent a change in his later years, becoming more passionate, daring and challenging. He remarked, in an interview with Eugenio Scafari "at the age of seventy, I have come to the conclusion that only the sentiment and fear of death can induce an immoderate passion for life. " His last recordings bear eloquent tribute to this 'immoderate passion for life'.
In 1949 he took over his friend and colleague Dinu Lipatti’s master class at the Geneva Conservatory after Lipatti’s early death, and continued teaching until 1960. Dinu Lipatti ( March 19 1917, Bucharest &ndash December 2 1950, Geneva) was a Romanian classical Among his many pupils are the Argentine pianist Martha Argerich, the Italian pianist Maria Tipo, the Polish-Austrian pianist Ingrid Haebler and the organist Lionel Rogg. Martha Argerich (born June 5, 1941) is an Argentine concert Pianist. Maria Tipo ( Naples, December 23th 1931) Italian Pianist. Taught originally by her mother Ersilia Cavallo, who was a pupil of Ferruccio Lionel Rogg (b Geneva, April 21 1936 is a Swiss Organist, Composer and teacher of Musical theory.
Nikita Magaloff was married to Irene, the daughter of the violinist Joseph Szigeti. "Szigeti" redirects here For other uses see Szigeti (disambiguation. He died in Vevey on 26 December 1992. Vevey is a town in Switzerland in the canton Vaud, on the north shore of Lake Geneva.
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