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Sergei Lyapunov
12+ albums
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Sergei Mikhailovich Lyapunov (Russian: Сергей Михайлович Ляпунов, Yaroslavl, November 30, 1859 - Paris, November 8, 1924) was a Russian composer and pianist. After the death of his father, Mikhail Lyapunov, in Yaroslavl when he was about eight, Sergei, his mother, and his two brothers went to live in the larger town of Nizhny Novgorod. There he attended the grammar school along with classes of the newly formed local branch of the Russian Musical Society. On the recommendation of Nikolai Rubinstein, the Director of the Moscow Conservatory of Music, he enrolled in that institution in 1878. His main teachers were Liszt's former pupil Karl Klindworth (piano), and Tchaikovsky's former pupil and successor at the Conservatory, Sergei Taneyev (composition). He graduated in 1883 more attracted by the nationalist elements in music of the New Russian School than the more cosmopollitan approach of Tchaikovsky and Taneyev. He went to St. Petersburg in 1885 to seek out Mily Balakirev, becoming the most important member of Balakirev's latter-day circle. Balakirev, who had himself been born and bred in Nizhny Novgorod, took Lyapunov under his wing, and oversaw his early compositions as closely as he had done with the members of his circle during the 1860s, now known as The Five. Balakirev's influence would remain the dominant influence in his creative life.[1] In 1893, the Imperial Geographical Society commissioned Lyapunov, along with Balakirev and Lyadov, to gather folksongs from the re
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Lyapunov: 6 Morceaux faciles, Op. 59: No. 2, Berceuse d'une poupée
2,856212 Etudes d'execution transcendante, Op. 11: No. 1 Lullaby
2,2443Nocturne in D-Flat Major, Op. 8
912412 Études d'exécution transcendante, Op. 11: No. 5. Summer Night
881512 Etudes d'Execution Transcendante, Op. 11: I. Berceuse
3356Lyapunov: 12 Études d'exécution transcendante, Op. 11: No. 1, Berceuse
302712 Etudes d'execution transcendante, Op. 11: No. 6 Storm
24487 Preludes, Op. 6: Prelude No. 4 in B Major
243912 Etudes d'execution transcendante, Op. 11: No. 2 Dance of the Ghosts
23710Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-Flat Major, Op. 4
231albums
Lyapunov: 12 Etudes D'Execution Transcendante, Op. 11
Chin, Kapustin, Lyapunov & Szymanowski: Piano Etudes
Sergei Lyapunov: 12 études d'exécution transcendante, Op. 11
Lyapunov: Piano Works
Lyapunov: Works for Piano, Vol. 2
Lyapunov: 12 Études d'exécution transcendante
Lyapunov: Symphony No. 1; Ballade
Lyapunov: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 - Rhapsody on Ukrainian Themes
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Liapunov: Piano Works
Lyapunov: 12 études d'exécution transcendante, Op. 11
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Good Night! - Lyapunov: 6 Morceaux faciles, Op. 59: No. 2, Berceuse d'une poupée