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       Samuil Feinberg (1890–1962)
   DIR By: dhibbard
       Date: December 28, 2025, 12:52 pm
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       Samuil Yevgenyevich Feinberg (26 May 1890, Odessa – 22 October
       1962, Moscow) was a Russian and Soviet composer and pianist.
       Raised in Moscow, he entered the Moscow Conservatory and studied
       under Alexander Goldenweiser He also studied composition
       privately under Nikolai Zhilyayev. He graduated from the
       Conservatory in 1911, after which he embarked upon a career as a
       solo pianist whilst composing on the side. Memorably, he was the
       first pianist to perform the complete The Well-Tempered Clavier
       by Bach in concert in the USSR. However, he was soon sent to
       fight in the First World War for Russia until he abruptly became
       ill and was discharged. In 1922 he joined the faculty at the
       Conservatory, relaunching his pianistic career. By 1930, due to
       the political unrest in Stalin Russia, Feinberg was forbidden to
       leave the country, in part due to the fact that he was Jewish,
       except for two trips, to Vienna in 1936 and to Brussels in 1938.
       For this reason he is generally not well known outside of
       Russia. Feinberg was awarded the Stalin Prize in 1946.
       Feinberg never married, but lived with his brother, a painter.
       He is most remembered today for his complete recording of Bach's
       The Well-Tempered Clavier and many transcriptions. He also
       composed 3 Piano Concertos, a dozen piano sonatas as well as
       fantasias and other works for the instrument. Pianist Tatiana
       Nikolaeva said that each of his sonatas was a 'poem of life.'
       Feinberg has been called "A musical heir to Scriabin," who heard
       the young pianist play his fourth sonata and praised it highly.
       (Wikipedia)
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