Nikolay Peyko

Nikolay Ivanovich Peyko or Peiko (Николай Иванович Пейко) (Moscow, 1916 - Moscow, 1995) was a Russian composer and professor of composition.^[1]

Peyko studied composition at Moscow Conservatory under Nikolay Myaskovsky, graduating in 1940, then working in a military hospital during the Second World War and teaching at the Moscow Conservatory 1942-1949. From 1959 till retirement Peyko was professor of composition at the Gnessin State Musical College where his students included Sofia Gubaidulina.

Works

• Piano Ballad (1939)
• From the Legends of Yakutia, symphonic suite (1940, rev. 1957)
• Dramatic Overture (1941)
• Sonatina-Fairy Tail for Piano (1942)
• Aikhylu, opera (1942)
• Symphony No. 1 (1944-45)
• Symphony No. 2 (1946)
• Piano Concerto (1943-47)
• From the Early Russia, symphonic suite (1948)
• Moldavian Suite for orchestra (1949-50)
• Seven Pieces on Themes of the Soviet People (1950)
• Concerto-Fantasy for violin and orchestra No. 1 on Finnish themes (1953)
• Piano Sonata No. 1 (1946-54)
• Jeanne d'Arc, ballet after Schiller (1952-55)
• Symphonic Ballad (1956)
• Symphony No. 3 (1957)
• Sinfonietta (1959)
• Capriccio for chamber orchestra (1960)
• Piano Quintet (1961)
• String Quartet No. 1 (1962)
• Concerto-Fantasy for violin and orchestra No. 2 (1964)
• Symphony No. 4 (1963-65)
• String Quartet No. 2 (1965)
• One Night of Tsar Ivan, oratorio after Tolstoy (1968)
• Symphony No. 5 (1968)
• Suite for violin and orchestra (1968)
• Decimet (1971)
• Symphony No. 6 (1972)
• Concerto-Symphony (1974)
• Piano Sonata No. 2 (1975)
• String Quartet No. 3 (1976)
• Symphony No. 7 (1977)
• Elegiac Poem for strings (1980)
• One Night of Tsar Ivan, opera based in the 1968 oratorio (1982)
• Concert Variations for two pianos (1983)

Selected recordings

• Complete Piano Music. Toccata Classics (TOCC 0104 and 0105)

References