Nikolay Dimitriyevich Kashkin

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Nikolay Dimitriyevich Kashkin (1839-1920) was a music critic as well as a professor of piano and music theory at the Moscow Conservatoire. The son of a Voronezh bookseller, Kashkin was a self-taught musician who had started giving piano lessons by the time he was 13 years old. In 1860 he travelled to Moscow for further study in piano with Alexandre Dubuque. There he met Herman Avgustovich Laroche, Nikolay Rubinstein and Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky[1].

As a critic, Kashkin would do valuable service to promoting Tchaikovsky's music[2]. Kashkin published his recollections of Tchaikovsky three years after the composer's death.

[edit] References

Brown, David, Tchaikovsky: The Early Years, 1840-1874 (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1978)

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Brown, David, Tchaikovsky: The Early Years, 1840-1874 (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1978), 91-92
  2. ^ Brown, 92


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