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Nikolai Medtner

To Do

 * Add citations and sources from "Print Sources" section (and remove it)
 * Images?
 * Sources: Grove Music Online (+ see Bibliography for sources)
 * Add section for Skazki (using theses in bibliography), rewrite biography & lead
 * Look at his chapter in Schonberg
 * Add an influences section (Taneyev, Rachmaninoff, Brahms & germans)

Theses

 * Markson (2017) A Study of Nikolai Medtner's Compositional Technique: Form and Narrative in Tales

Lead
Nikolai Karlovich Medtner (Никола́й Ка́рлович Ме́тнер, Nikoláj Kárlovič Métner; 5 January 1880 – 13 November 1951) was a Russian composer and pianist. After a period of comparative obscurity in the twenty-five years immediately after his death, he is now becoming recognized as one of the most significant Russian composers for the piano.

A younger contemporary of Sergei Rachmaninoff and Alexander Scriabin, he wrote a substantial number of compositions, all of which include the piano. His works include fourteen piano sonatas, three violin sonatas, three piano concerti, a piano quintet, two works for two pianos, many shorter piano pieces, a few shorter works for violin and piano, and 108 songs including two substantial works for vocalise. His 38 Skazki (generally known as "Fairy Tales" in English but more correctly translated as "Tales") for piano solo contain some of his most original music.

Skazki
Medtner's Skazki

Other Pages

 * Create articles for Medtner's pieces:
 * Skazki (Medtner)
 * (individual sets of Skazki?)
 * Piano Sonata No. 1 (Medtner)
 * Piano Sonata No. 2 (Medtner)
 * Piano Sonata No. 3 (Medtner)
 * Piano Sonata No. 4 (Medtner)
 * Piano Sonata No. 5 (Medtner)
 * Piano Sonata No. 6 (Medtner)
 * Piano Sonata No. 7 (Medtner)
 * Piano Sonata No. 8 (Medtner)
 * Piano Sonata No. 9 (Medtner)
 * Piano Sonata No. 10 (Medtner)
 * Piano Sonata No. 11 (Medtner)
 * Piano Sonata No. 12 (Medtner)
 * Piano Sonata No. 13 (Medtner)
 * Piano Sonata No. 14 (Medtner)
 * Or have all of the sonatas in one page?
 * Piano Concerto No. 1 (Medtner)
 * Piano Concerto No. 2 (Medtner)
 * Piano Concerto No. 3 (Medtner)
 * Violin Sonata No. 1 (Medtner)
 * Violin Sonata No. 2 (Medtner)
 * Violin Sonata No. 3 (Medtner)
 * Piano Quintet (Medtner)
 * Others?

Piano Sonatas (Medtner)
See Nikolai_Medtner

The composer Nikolai Medtner wrote fourteen piano sonatas which were published in his lifetime, in addition to the smaller Sonata in B minor, an early composition, and a sonatina, both of which remained unpublished until after his death.

Piano Sonata No. 1
Piano Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 6, is the first of Medtner's piano sonatas. It was completed in August 1903, and was dedicated to the composer's brother, Emil Medtner.

Piano Sonatas No. 2-4
Medtner's second, third and fourth piano sonatas were published Sonaten-Triade

Unpublished Sonatas
Sonatina in G minor is a seven minute work written in 1898; it was published posthumously in 1981.

Sonata in B minor is a minor work written in 1897.

For Reference
Wikipedia pages:


 * List of compositions by Nikolai Medtner
 * Piano sonatas (Chopin)
 * Piano Sonata No. 1 (Rachmaninoff)
 * Piano Sonata No. 32 (Beethoven)

External Links:


 * Medtner.org List of Works
 * List of Works (Russian website)
 * IMSLP - Scores for Works
 * IMSLP List of Works
 * Comprehensive List of Works (in German)
 * Scores of Works (Russian website)
 * 14 Piano Sonatas on YouTube - Sonantina in G minor - Sonata in B minor?

Books:


 * Martyn
 * Look in books on Rachmaninoff?

Articles:


 * Grove Music Online
 * Gerstle - The Piano Music of Nicolai Medtner (JSTOR)
 * Newman - Medtner (JSTOR)
 * Holt - Obituary
 * Medtner's Piano Music: An Appreciative Study (JSTOR)

Theses


 * Chernaya-Oh - THE SKAZKI (FAIRY TALES) OF NIKOLAI MEDTNER: THE EVOLUTION AND CHARACTERISTICS OF THE GENRE WITH COMPOSITIONAL AND PERFORMANCE ASPECTS OF SELECTED FAIRY TALES (DMA Thesis) (Also see bibliography)
 * Acevedo - Nikolai Medtner: A new source for Sonata in F Minor, Op. 5 (DMA Thesis)
 * Keller - THE PIANO SONATAS OF NICOLAS MEDTNER (PhD. Thesis) (full version?)
 * Loftiss - THE PIANO SONATAS OF NICOLAI MEDTNER (PhD. Thesis) (full version?)
 * Liebeskind - In Support of Nikolai Medtner: An Examination of Five of his Art Songs (DMA Thesis)
 * Maybe? - An Introduction to Nikolai Medtner’s Piano Concertos: Aspects of Two-Dimensional Sonata Form and Metrotectonics