Lopatnikoff, Nikolai. (1903–1976). Autograph Letter regarding a canceled BSO performance of his work. 2 pp. Large octavo. Pittsburgh, February 22, 1953. On Lopatnikoff's letterhead, the Russian-born composer,pianist, and teacher tells his friends to cancel a planned party, because the Boston Symphony Orchestra cancelled a scheduled performance of a Lopatnikoff work! He mentions Cantelli and Monteux as guest conductors of the BSO, and apparently neither of them wanted to perform his composition.
A student of Ernst Toch, Lopatnikoff worked closely with famed conductor Sergey Koussevitsky until Koussevitsky's death. A professor of composition at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh for 25 years, he was twice awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and was elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1963. Lopatnikoff's music has been described as a blend of late nineteenth-century Russian nationalism and the leaner twentieth-century neo-Classical sounds of Hindemith and Stravinsky. His output includes the opera Danton (1932), a pair of piano concertos (both premiered by Lopatnikoff), four symphonies, and a great deal of chamber and piano music.
A student of Ernst Toch, Lopatnikoff worked closely with famed conductor Sergey Koussevitsky until Koussevitsky's death. A professor of composition at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh for 25 years, he was twice awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and was elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1963. Lopatnikoff's music has been described as a blend of late nineteenth-century Russian nationalism and the leaner twentieth-century neo-Classical sounds of Hindemith and Stravinsky. His output includes the opera Danton (1932), a pair of piano concertos (both premiered by Lopatnikoff), four symphonies, and a great deal of chamber and piano music.
Lopatnikoff, Nikolai. (1903–1976). Autograph Letter regarding a canceled BSO performance of his work. 2 pp. Large octavo. Pittsburgh, February 22, 1953. On Lopatnikoff's letterhead, the Russian-born composer,pianist, and teacher tells his friends to cancel a planned party, because the Boston Symphony Orchestra cancelled a scheduled performance of a Lopatnikoff work! He mentions Cantelli and Monteux as guest conductors of the BSO, and apparently neither of them wanted to perform his composition.
A student of Ernst Toch, Lopatnikoff worked closely with famed conductor Sergey Koussevitsky until Koussevitsky's death. A professor of composition at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh for 25 years, he was twice awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and was elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1963. Lopatnikoff's music has been described as a blend of late nineteenth-century Russian nationalism and the leaner twentieth-century neo-Classical sounds of Hindemith and Stravinsky. His output includes the opera Danton (1932), a pair of piano concertos (both premiered by Lopatnikoff), four symphonies, and a great deal of chamber and piano music.
A student of Ernst Toch, Lopatnikoff worked closely with famed conductor Sergey Koussevitsky until Koussevitsky's death. A professor of composition at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh for 25 years, he was twice awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and was elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1963. Lopatnikoff's music has been described as a blend of late nineteenth-century Russian nationalism and the leaner twentieth-century neo-Classical sounds of Hindemith and Stravinsky. His output includes the opera Danton (1932), a pair of piano concertos (both premiered by Lopatnikoff), four symphonies, and a great deal of chamber and piano music.