Milstein, Yakov (Isaakovich)
Milstein, Yakov (Isaakovich)
Milstein, Yakov (Isaakovich), Russian pianist, pedagogue, and writer on music; b. Voronezh, Feb. 4, 1911; d. Moscow, Dec. 4, 1981. He studied piano with Igumnov at the Moscow Cons. (Ph.D., 1942), where he was a member of its faculty (from 1935). His main interest was an analysis of works of masters of Romantic music. Particularly important is his biography of Liszt (Moscow, 1956; Hungarian ed., Budapest, 1965; 2nded., rev., 1971). He contributed an essay on the piano technique of Chopin and Liszt to The Book of the First International Musicological Congress Devoted to the Works of Chopin (Warsaw, 1963). He also publ. a monograph on Igumnov (Moscow, 1975).
—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire
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