Taneyev

[tuh-nye-yuhf]

noun

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

Example Sentences

So there will be extra interest in these forces’ performance of Taneyev’s final major work, the massive, gaudy cantata “At the Reading of a Psalm.”

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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.

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Saturday night’s concert draws on the conductor Leon Botstein’s uncommon breadth of interests, with music by Tchaikovsky, Balakirev and Serov, as well as Taneyev’s Symphony No. 4 and Rimsky-Korsakov’s Piano Concerto.

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Goodyear’s version hews fairly closely to Sergei Taneyev’s 1892 piano reduction, which captured the details of the full score with remarkable fidelity.

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

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