Alexander Goldenweiser

Alexander Goldenweiser studied at Moscow Conservatory. Training under Pavel Pabst is recorded. Oxana Yablonskaya, Samuil Feinberg and Dmitri Kabalevsky are recorded as having studied under Alexander Goldenweiser. The recorded working language is Russian. The field of work recorded is piano performance, music education and music journalism. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are opera. Employment is recorded with Moscow Conservatory. Distinctions recorded are Stalin Prize, Order of Lenin, People's Artist of the USSR and Order of the Red Banner of Labour.

• Name — Alexander Goldenweiser • Birthplace — Kishinev, Bessarabia, Russian Empire • Died — 26 November 1961 • Place of death — Moscow Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union • Occupation — * Pianist • teacher • composer

Goldenweiser was born in Kishinev, the capital of Bessarabia Governorate in the Russian Empire. In 1889, he was admitted to the Moscow Conservatory in the class of Alexander Siloti (also Ziloti). He graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in 1895 in the piano class of Pavel Pabst (previously with A.I.Siloti), winning the Gold Medal for Piano, in 1897 – in the composition class of Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov. He also studied composition with Anton Arensky and counterpoint with Sergei Taneyev (1892–1893). He joined the faculty of the Conservatory shortly afterward, where he worked as the dean, and during his tenure there, his pupils included Grigory Ginzburg, Lazar Berman, Samuil Feinberg, Rosa Tamarkina, Dmitry Kabalevsky, Galina Eguiazarova, Nikolai Kapustin, Alexander Braginsky, Sulamita Aronovsky, Tatiana Nikolayeva, Dmitry Paperno, Nodar Gabunia, Oxana Yablonskaya, Nelly Akopian-Tamarina, Dmitri Bashkirov, Dmitry Blagoy, and many others. Rachmaninoff's Second Suite, Op. 17, was dedicated to him as well as Medtner's Lyric Fragments, Op. 23. He was a close friend of Leo Tolstoy. He published memories of his relationship with Tolstoy in his book Vblizi Tolstogo. He made a number of renowned recordings as a pianist, including four recordings on piano roll for the Welte-Mignon reproducing piano in 1910. He died on 26 November 1961, in Moscow Oblast.

Alexander Goldenweiser is recorded with the occupation university teacher. Recorded with the occupation music educator. Classed in the genre opera. Recorded as having received Stalin Prize, Order of Lenin and People's Artist of the USSR.