Nicolai Soloviev

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Nicolai Feopemptovich Soloviev (Russian: Никола́й Феопе́мптович Соловьёв; Petrozavodsk, 9 May [O.S. 27 April] 1846 – Petrograd (Saint Petersburg), 27 December [O.S. 14 December] 1916), sometimes Solovyov, was a Russian music critic, composer, and teacher at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. His notable composition students include Samuel Maykapar, Mihkel Lüdig, and Artur Lemba. Soloviev composed several operas, an overture, the symphonic poem Russians and Mongols, and assisted in the completion of Alexander Serov's opera, The Power of the Fiend.^[1]

As a music critic, Soloviev supported the works of composers such as Modest Mussorgsky and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, while trouncing the work of other composers. Of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto he wrote, "Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto, like the first pancake, is a flop."^[2]

His composition students included Peeter Süda.

References

↑ Elson, Arthur. The Book Musical Knowledge: the History, Technique, and Appreciation of Music, Together with Lives of the Great Composers, for Music-lovers, Students and Teachers, p. 268, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915
↑ Novoye Vremya, St. Petersburg, Nov. 13, 1875

External links

Free scores by Nicolai Soloviev at the International Music Score Library Project

Persondata
Name	Soloviev, Nicolai Feopemptovich
Alternative names	Solovyov, Nicolai Feopemptovich
Short description	Russian music critic and composer
Date of birth	9 May 1846
Place of birth	Petrozavodsk
Date of death	27 December 1916
Place of death	Saint Petersburg

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