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Nikolai Kapustin
Soviet and Russian composer and pianist (1937-2020) · Ukraine · On the map · Musicians · Died at 82
Nikolai Girshevich Kapustin was a Soviet-born Russian composer and pianist. He is widely regarded as one of the most significant figures in the synthesis of jazz idioms and Western classical structures.
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The railway at Nikitovka (Ukrainian: Микитівка, Russian: Никитовка), the historically significant railway suburb of Horlivka where Kapustin was born.
Students performing at the Academic Music College of the Moscow Conservatory, where Kapustin traveled to audition for the piano performance department in 1952.
The writer Sergei Mikhalkov in 1954. During this period, Kapustin lived in the Mikhalkov household, which served as a major cultural hub where he was first exposed to American jazz.
The legendary pianist Alexander Goldenweiser, who was 81 years old when Kapustin joined his class. He considered Kapustin to be among the three most talented pianists he had ever known.
The main entrance of the Moscow Conservatory, where Kapustin performed his first-year jury with only his left hand following a severe finger infection. He famously nearly faced expulsion from the institution for hanging "bourgeois" abstract paintings in his dormitory as a joke.
Opening ceremony of the 6th World Festival of Youth and Students at the Lenin Stadium in July 1957. It was at this festival that Kapustin premiered his first opus, the Concertino for Piano and Orchestra, with Yuri Saulsky's big band.
Oleg Lundstrem in 2000. Under Lundstrem's leadership, Kapustin spent eleven years as a soloist and arranger, touring extensively across the Soviet Union.About this person
A virtuoso of the "Moscow School" of piano playing, Kapustin composed 161 opus numbers, including 20 piano sonatas, six piano concertos, and sets of preludes and fugues, all of which utilize a sophisticated harmonic and rhythmic language derived from bebop, stride piano, and jazz fusion.
