<div id="LayerE10" class="Black_Text" style="visibility: visible; overflow: visible; width:500px; z-index:0; left:0px; top:0px; position:absolute; "> <div align="center" name="textnamecont" id="textnamecont" style="font-family : arial; font-size : 10pt; border:none; position:relative; width:100%; left:0px; top:2px; visibility:visibile; overflow:inherit; z-index:12;"> <div name="imagename" id="imagename" style="background-color:#eeeeee; color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-family:arial; font-size : 10pt; text-align:center; border:none; position:relative; width:95%; height:18px; z-index:10; overflow:inherit;"> Nikolai Medtner </div> </div> <br> <div align="left" name="infodisplayscroll" id="infodisplayscroll" style="font-family : arial; font-size : 10pt; border:none; position:relative; width:95%; left:20px; top:6px; visibility:visibile; overflow:inherit; z-index:10;"> <table style="border-collapse: collapse;" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3" bordercolor="#000000" border="0" width="460"><tbody><tr><td width="100%" valign="top"> <div align="center"></div> <div align="center"> <div align="left"><span class="Black_SubHead"> </span><font size="5" class="DarkRed_SubHead">Nikolai Medtner </font> <span class="DarkRed_SubHead"><span class="DarkRed_SubHead"></span><span class="DarkRed_SubHead"><span class="DarkRed_SubHead"></span><span class="DarkRed_SubHead"><span class="DarkRed_SubHead"></span></span></span></span><br /> </div><span class="Black_SubHead"><span class="Black_Text_Bold"></span></span></div> <div><strong> </strong></div> <div> <div align="center"></div> <div align="left"><img height="160" width="160" title="" alt="" src="/EZ/hr/hr/imagelibrary/medtner.jpg" /><br /> </div></div> <div><font size="2"><br /> <span class="Black_Text"></span></font></div> <div><font size="2"><span class="Black_Text">Despite his precocious talent as a pianist, Medtner preferred to focus of composition. Having remained (unlike his friend Rachmaninov) in Russia after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, Medtner eventually left in 1924. </span></font></div> <div><font size="2"><span class="Black_Text"> </span></font></div> <div><font size="2"><span class="Black_Text">A tour of the United States and Canada made up of all-Medtner programmes was not a great success, and he settled in London in 1936, devoting himself to composition and teaching. However, he appeared at the 1943 Proms, giving the premiere of his 3rd Piano Concerto. </span></font></div> <div><font size="2"><span class="Black_Text"> </span></font></div> <div><font size="2"><span class="Black_Text">After the War, a Medtner Society was formed under the patronage of the Maharajah of Mysore. Thanks to his generosity, HMV issued three volumes of the Piano Concertos, solo piano music & songs. In addition, Columbia issued a set of songs with the composer accompanying Elisabeth Schwarzkopf. </span></font></div> <div><font size="2"><span class="Black_Text"> </span></font></div> <div><font size="2"><span class="Black_Text">Following his death in 1951, his reputation went into something of a decline, but his major works are now available for a new generation to appreciate. <br /> </span></font></div> <div><font size="2"><span class="Black_Text"> </span></font></div> <div><font size="2"><span class="Black_Text">His style is often lyrical and restrained, as in the First Piano Concerto, composed during the First World War. After a surging opening theme, the development comprises variations on this theme, which returns about two-thirds of the way through the work. A new romantic theme makes its appearance before the concerto ends with a quiet coda, unusual for concertos of this era. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <span class="Black_Text_Bold"></span></span></font></div> <div><font size="2"><span class="Black_Text"></span><br /> <br /> </font></div></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> </div><br></div>
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