Nikita Magalov

Nikita Magalov (born Magalachvili), born the February 28th 1912 with Saint-Pétersbourg and dead the December 26th 1992 with Vevey, was a Russian Pianiste .

Its family côtoyait much the artists of Saint-Pétersbourg, like Alexandre Siloti or Prokofiev, its mother and her uncle was very good pianists amateurs. They emigrated with Paris in 1918, after the revolution. Nikita was the pupil of Isidore Philipp with the Conservatoire, which it left with the first price. It approached then Ravel, which says of him: “In Magaloff, large, an extraordinary musician was born”. It supplemented its formation near other pianists, but especially with the violonist Joseph Szigeti, of which it married the girl thereafter.

Although not having never obtained a price with a contest, it became one of the most sought pianists and the most appreciated in the concerts of the whole world. It started to teach in 1949, when it took again the class of Dinu Lipatti with the Academy of Geneva, and continued this activity during all its life, in Paris, with His, Taormina, or at his place with Montreux (it had acquired the citizenship Suisse in 1956).

Its love of the concert and the need for the presence of the public made that it recorded relatively few discs. It however left very estimated engravings of Chopin and Liszt in particular.

External bond

Article on Magalov

Random links: