Medtner, Nikolai. (1880–1951). Autograph Musical Quotation. Autograph musical quotation signed ("Nicholas Medtner"), consisting of four bars of music on a hand-ruled staff. On an album page (11.6 x 6 cm), no place or date. Very fine condition.
Uncommon. Medtner was one of the very last Romantic composer-pianists, his career being overshadowed by his close contemporaries Skryabin and Rakhmaninov. Like them, he placed the piano at the heart of his creative activity, but unlike them he tempered a Russian spirit with musical thought more firmly based in the Western classical tradition.
Uncommon. Medtner was one of the very last Romantic composer-pianists, his career being overshadowed by his close contemporaries Skryabin and Rakhmaninov. Like them, he placed the piano at the heart of his creative activity, but unlike them he tempered a Russian spirit with musical thought more firmly based in the Western classical tradition.
Medtner, Nikolai. (1880–1951). Autograph Musical Quotation. Autograph musical quotation signed ("Nicholas Medtner"), consisting of four bars of music on a hand-ruled staff. On an album page (11.6 x 6 cm), no place or date. Very fine condition.
Uncommon. Medtner was one of the very last Romantic composer-pianists, his career being overshadowed by his close contemporaries Skryabin and Rakhmaninov. Like them, he placed the piano at the heart of his creative activity, but unlike them he tempered a Russian spirit with musical thought more firmly based in the Western classical tradition.
Uncommon. Medtner was one of the very last Romantic composer-pianists, his career being overshadowed by his close contemporaries Skryabin and Rakhmaninov. Like them, he placed the piano at the heart of his creative activity, but unlike them he tempered a Russian spirit with musical thought more firmly based in the Western classical tradition.