Tatiana nikolayeva biography

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Tatiana Nikolayeva was born in the Soviet Union in At age five, she began piano study with her mother, then became a pupil of Alexander Goldenweiser at.

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Nikolayeva had a career as teacher and performer in the USSR, but it was not until the early s that she began to perform in Europe, Japan and America.

Tatjana Nikolajewa born on May 4, in Beschitz, Russia died on November 23, in San Francisco, during a concert.

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Pianist Tatiana Nikolayeva

A Conversation with Bruce Duffie

The distinguished Soviet pianist Tatiana Nikolayeva is a name familiar to many as one of the greatest forces behind the wealth of piano talent to flood from the former Soviet Union during the twentieth century.

She was born on 4 May and began playing the piano at the age of three, subsequently entering the Moscow Conservatoire to study with Alexander Goldenweiser and Yevgeny Golubev.

She retained her close connection with the Moscow Conservatoire all her life. Indeed, her name was inscribed twice on the marble Roll of Honour there, first as a pianist, then as a composer.

After winning the Bach Leipzig Piano Competition, Nikolayeva built up a phenomenal volume of repertoire, ranging from Bach to Bartók and beyond.

Her interpretation of Bach on record won great critical acclaim. Whilst others used so-called 'original' instruments, Nikolayeva preferred to play Bach on