Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
Date | Event |
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1872 | Ėmiliĭ Karlovich Metner (Nikolay Medtner's brother) born |
1877 | Anna Mikhaĭlovna Bratenskaya Medtner (Nikolay Medtner's wife) born |
1880, Jan. 5 | Nikolay Karlovich Medtner born, Moscow, Russia |
1890 | Entered Moscow Conservatory |
1897 | Completed Acht Stimmungsbilder, op. 1 (published 1903) |
1900 | Graduated from Moscow Conservatory with small gold medal |
1902 | Ėmiliĭ and Anna married |
1903 | Composed Piano Sonata no. 1, F minor, op. 5 (published 1904) |
1909 | Appointed Professor at Moscow Conservatory |
1911 | Composed Piano Sonata in E minor, op. 25, no. 2: Night wind (published 1912) |
1918 | Composed Piano Concerto no. 1, C minor, op. 33 (published 1921) |
1919, June 21 | Nikolay married Anna Medtner (formerly wife of Ėmiliĭ Karlovich Metner) |
1921 | Moved to Berlin |
1922 | Composed Sonata in A minor, op. 38, no. 1: Reminiscenza |
1924 | Moved to Paris |
1927 | Composed Piano Concerto no. 2, C minor, op. 50 (published 1928) |
1935 | Publication of Nikolay Medtner's treatise Muza i Moda, in Russian (English translation, 1951) Moved to London |
1936 | Ėmiliĭ Karlovich Metner died |
1943 | Composed Piano Concerto no. 3, E major, op. 60: Ballade (published 1951) |
1946 | Met Jayachamaraja Wodeyar Bahadur (the last Maharaja of the princely state of Mysore); the Maharaja financed the recording of a large number of Medtner's works |
1948 | Composed Piano Quintet in C major, op. posth. (published 1955) |
1949 | Medtner Society founded by Jayachamaraja Wodeyar Bahadur |
1951, Nov. 13 | Died at Golders Green, London |
1965 | Anna Medtner died |