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Taneyev

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[tuh-nye-yuhf] / tʌˈnyɛ yəf /

noun

  1. Sergei Ivanovich 1856–1915, Russian composer and pianist.


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Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center The ensemble plays an all-Russian program of works by Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky and Taneyev in an intimate concert with all seating onstage.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2019

His grandfather, Julius Isserlis, was a Russian-Jewish pianist-composer who studied with Tchai-kovsky’s pupil, Sergei Taneyev.

From Economist • Oct. 20, 2016

The pianist Wu Han and the cellist David Finckel join forces with the Escher String Quartet for a program featuring works by Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Arensky and Taneyev.

From New York Times • Mar. 13, 2014

Ms. Ostling, a member of the Carpe Diem String Quartet, in Ohio, explained that she had paid her own way and was performing free at an academic conference on the Russian composer Sergey Taneyev.

From New York Times • Oct. 19, 2011

His parents, startled and impressed, packed him off to Moscow to study composition with a famous pedagogue and minor composer named Alexander Taneyev.

From Time Magazine Archive