Valery Afanassiev
Valery Pavlovich Afanassiev (Valery Pavlovich Afanasyev; born 8 September 1947) is a Russian pianist, writer and conductor.
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Valery Afanassiev
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- Name
- Valery Pavlovich Afanassiev
- Born
- 8 September 1947
- Birthplace
- Moscow
- Education
- Academic Music College, Moscow Conservatory
- Occupation
- Pianist, writer, conductor
- Nationality
- Russia · Belgium · Soviet Union
- Fields
- classical music
- Honours
- laureate of the Queen Elisabeth Competition
- Languages
- Russian · French
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Valery Pavlovich Afanassiev (Valery Pavlovich Afanasyev; born 8 September 1947) is a Russian pianist, writer and conductor.
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Valery Afanassiev (born 1947) is a conductor, musician and musicologist, among other activities, of Belgian and Russian nationality. The conductor was born in Moscow. Valery Afanassiev was educated at Academic Music College of the Moscow Conservatory and Moscow Conservatory.
The work spans classical music. Languages used include French and Russian. Honours include laureate of the Queen Elisabeth Competition.
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Biography
Biography
Valery Afanassiev studied at Moscow Conservatory and Academic Music College of the Moscow Conservatory. The recorded working language is Russian and French. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are classical music. Distinctions recorded are laureate of the Queen Elisabeth Competition.
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• Name — Valery Pavlovich Afanassiev • Native Name — Валерий Павлович Афанасьев • Born — 8 September 1947 • Birthplace — Moscow • Education — Academic Music College, Moscow Conservatory • Occupation — Pianist, writer, conductor
Life
Life
Valery Afanassiev was born in Moscow. He studied piano at the Academic Music College and Moscow Conservatory with Emil Gilels and Yakov Zak. He was the winner of the Bach Competition in Leipzig in 1968, as well as 1st prize recipient at the Concours Reine Elisabeth in Brussels in 1971. Shortly after, while touring around Belgium, he decided to seek political asylum, and was eventually granted Belgian citizenship. Afanassiev lives in Versailles.
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Valery Afanassiev is recorded as having received laureate of the Queen Elisabeth Competition. Identity and origins. The authorities additionally record the heading Valery Pavlovich Afanassiev. His recorded languages were Russian and French.
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Valery Afanassiev born at Moscow.
Work and critical reception
Afanassiev become widely known in the 1980s due to his musical partnership with Gidon Kremer. Their joint recordings of chamber works by Mozart, Schubert, and Brahms were highly praised. His interpretations of solo piano works by Franz Schubert, Ludwig van Beethoven and the others have aroused controversy on account of Afanassiev's tempi choices and idiosyncratic expressiveness. One review of his recording of Schubert's last three piano sonatas stated: "the perversity encountered here so angered me that I felt I could not dignify what I found here with any kind of coherent analysis". Afanassiev is also a writer of poetry, novels, and drama. He is also an orchestral conductor.
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- 1.ArkivMusic. Valery Afanassiev Biography.
- 2.Linkowski, Allen. Schubert: Piano Sonatas, last 3. American Record Guide. 62. 2. 212. 1999.
- 3.Valery Afanassiev.
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