Konstantin Igumnov’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro Russian pianist
Was Musician 
Pianist 
Composer 
Educator 
From Russia 
Type Academia 
Music 
Gender male
Birth 1 May 1873, Lebedyan, Lebedyansky District, Lipetsk Oblast
Death 24 March 1948, Moscow, Russia
(aged 74 years)
Star sign Taurus

Konstantin Nicolayevich Igumnov (Russian: Константи́н Никола́евич Игу́мнов; May 1 [O.S. April 19], 1873, Lebedyan, Tambov Governorate, – March 24, 1948) was a Russian pianist and the teacher of many Russian pianists.

Biography

Igumnov studied under Nikolai Zverev, and at Moscow Conservatory under Alexander Siloti and Pavel Pabst. He took theory and composition courses from Sergei Taneyev, Anton Arensky and Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov. In 1898-9 he was pianoforte teacher at the Tiflis music-school of the Russian Music Society. From 1899 he was Professor at the Moscow Conservatory, where his life’s work was carried out. He recorded 6 pieces on piano roll for the Welte-Mignon reproducing piano in 1910.

Among his many students were Bolesław Kon, Oleg Boshniakovich, Naum Shtarkman, Elena Beckman-Shcherbina, Yakov Flier, Boris Moiseyevitch Berlin, Lev Oborin, Maria Grinberg, Andrzej Wasowski, Ryszard Bakst, Tengiz Amirejibi, Anatoly Nikolayevich Alexandrov, Natalia Satina (wife of Rachmaninoff), Aleksandr Iokheles, Bella Davidovich, Rosa Tamarkina, and the conductor Issay Dobrowen.

A four-record (LP) set of Igumnov’s recordings was issued by Melodiya on 33C 10-05519-26.

Honours and awards

  • Order of Lenin
  • Order of the Red Banner of Labour
  • People’s Artist of USSR, 1946
  • Stalin Prize, 1946
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