Nicolas Medtner: His Life and Music

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Contents: List of plates
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1880-1900 Childhood and conservatoire
1900-1903 Start of a career
1903-1906 Personal turmoil
1906-1909 German sojourn
1909-1911 Conservatoire professor
1911-1914 Friends and critics
1914-1917 War
1917-1921 Revolution
1921-1925 A life abroad
1925-1927 Return to Russia
1927-1930 Britain and America
1930-1935 The Muse and the Fashion
1935-1939 Move to England
1939-1945 Second World War
1945-1951 Indian Fairy Tale
Notes
Index of Medtner's Works
Index of persons and works referred to in the text.

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Nicholas Medtner (1880-1951) has always been a neglected figure in the history of Russian music, and yet his friend Rachmaninoff considered him the greatest of contemporary composers. He wrote three fine piano concertos, more than one hundred solo piano compositions, including a cycle of fourteen sonatas fully worthy to be set alongside those of Scriabin and Prokofiev, and many beautiful songs. He was also a great pianist. Leaving Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution, Medtner lived for a time in Germany and France before finally settling in London, where he passed the final sixteen years of his life. The present work is the first to tell the full story of his eventful life and to consider in turn each of his compositions. The author has drawn on Medtner’s own correspondence and writings and collected the reminiscences of those who knew him personally to build a comprehensive picture of a great, if still largely unrecognised, musician.

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