Leonid Vladimirovich Nikolayev

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Leonid Vladimirovich Nikolayev (1878 - October 11, 1942, Tashkent) was a Russian/Soviet pianist, composer and pedagogue.

For many years Nikolayev was a professor of piano at the Leningrad Conservatoire, and was for a short and unsuccessful period director of the institution. Whilst at the conservatoire, he taught Dmitry Shostakovich, with whom he became close friends — Shostakovich "admired him as a first-class musician and a man of great wisdom and learning"[1]. Shostakovich's 1943 Piano Sonata no. 2 was dedicated to his former teacher.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Shostakovich, ed. Glikman, p.233
  • Shostakovich, Dmitri and Glikman, Isaak (2001). Story of a Friendship: The Letters of Dmitry Shostakovich to Isaak Glikman. Cornell Univ Press. ISBN 0-8014-3979-5.
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