Pavel Pabst
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Paul Pabst [1] Russ: Pavel (15 May 1854 - 9 June 1897) was a pianist, composer, and Professor of Piano at Moscow Conservatory.
Life and career
Pabst was born Christian Georg Paul Pabst in 1854, into a family of highly gifted[citation needed] musicians in Königsberg, capital of East Prussia. The young Pabst had a fortuitous[citation needed] meeting with Anton Rubinstein when the great pianist/composer travelled to Koenigsberg as overseer of cultural programmes there. Pabst moved to Russia as a most accomplished pianist[citation needed] in 1878. In the autumn of that year he accepted an invitation from Nikolai Rubinstein[citation needed] to teach at the Moscow Conservatory.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky frequently attended concerts given by Pabst, and used to refer to Pavel, as he was now known, as "a pianist of divine elegance"[citation needed], and "a pianist from God". Pabst was considered the greatest Professor of Piano[citation needed] at the Conservatory, and his students carried the great tradition of Russian romanticism into the 20th century. Pabst was considered one of the greatest pianists of his day[citation needed], admired even by the great Franz Liszt. He and the young Sergei Rachmaninoff performed many concerts together[citation needed].
Until now Pabst has been known as a composer only[citation needed] for his piano transcriptions of the music for the ballet and opera by Tchaikovsky. He also fingered the piano concerto by Anton Arensky, and was the soloist at its premiere[citation needed]. Pabst's piano transcriptions were loved[citation needed] by the most outstanding pianists of the time, and were considered to be on a par with those by Liszt himself.
Paul Pabst died suddenly[citation needed] in 1897 in Moscow and was buried at Vvedenskoye Cemetery. His funeral wreath from the Russian Musical Society contained the epitaph: To Honored Artist - Indefatigable Professor - Hardly simply a man[citation needed].
Orchestral work
In 1885 he wrote his only[citation needed] orchestral work, the Piano Concerto in E-flat major. Its first performances were in St. Petersburg and Moscow, with Pabst as soloist, and with Anton Rubinstein conducting[citation needed]. The score was then lost[citation needed], but has since been discovered.
Both Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff dedicated works to Pabst[citation needed]. Pabst was in illustrious company[citation needed], and this is reflected in his Piano Concerto. It is an exquisite[citation needed] romantic work in three movements, lasting 33 minutes, full of wonderful tunes and a fiendishly difficult but lyrical solo part. On 19 April 2005, 120 years after its premiere, Pabst's 'Lost Concerto' was performed by Panagiotis Trochopoulos at a concert given in Minsk by the Belarusian State Academic Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Marius Stravinsky[citation needed]. A live recording was made by producer David Kent-Watson, and filmed for the documentary 'The Lost Concerto'[citation needed].
This live recording was used for the world premiere CD release of Pavel Pabst's Piano Concerto, now available on Cameo Classics CC9033CD[citation needed].
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