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Nikolai Kapustin
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Nikolai Kapustin (Russian: Николай Капустин, Nikolay Kapustin; born November 22, 1937 in Gorlovka, Ukraine - died July 2, 2020) was a Russian composer and pianist. Kapustin studied piano with Avrelian Rubakh (pupil of Felix Blumenfeld who also taught Simon Barere and Vladimir Horowitz) and, later, Alexander Goldenweiser at the Moscow Conservatory. During the 1950s he acquired a reputation as a jazz pianist, arranger and composer. He was steeped, therefore, in both the traditions of classical virtuoso pianism and improvisational jazz. He fused these influences in his compositions, using jazz idioms in formal classical structures. A striking example of this is his Suite in the Old Style op. 28, written in 1977, which inhabits the sound world of jazz improvisation but is modelled on baroque suites such as the keyboard partitas composed by J. S. Bach, each movement being a stylised dance (or sometimes a pair of dances) in strict binary form. Other examples of this fusion are his set of 24 Preludes and Fugues op. 82 written in 1997, and the op. 100 Sonatina. Kapustin viewed himself as a composer rather than a jazz musician. He said, "I was never a jazz musician. I never tried to be a real jazz pianist, but I had to do it because of the composing. I’m not interested in improvisation – and what is a jazz musician without improvisation? All my improvisation is written, of course, and they became much better; it improved them." Among his works are 17 piano sonatas, six piano conce
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Eight Concert Studies for Piano, Op. 40: III. Toccatina
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2,2674Eight Concert Etudes, op. 40: Finale
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1,5927Eight Concert Etudes Op. 40 Reverie
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1,423924 Jazz Preludes, Op. 53: No. 10
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Kapustin: 8 Concert Etudes - 24 Preludes
Kapustin:Eight Concert Etudes
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Eight Concert Etudes, Op. 40: Finale
Kapustin: Eight Concert Etudes, Piano Sonata No. 2, Sonatina, Variations & Moon Rainbow
Kapustin : Eight Concert Etudes
Nikolai Kapustin. Works for Piano and Cello
Kapustin: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 6 & Other Piano Works
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Kapustin: 24 Jazz Preludes, Op. 53: No. 10
Kapustin:24 Preludes
Kapustin: Orchestral Works
Kapustin Plays Kapustin - A Jazz Portrait