Vladimir Rebikov Waltz, from The Christmas Tree ( PIANO SOLO VERSION)
UPLOADER S NOTE: I was about to upload something else, but it was too risky for me to do so, so I replaced it with this. Besides, I don t want to receive a channel strike for a Christmas present. Vladimir Ivanovich Rebikov, sometimes known as the father of Russian modernism and the inventor of the wholetone scale, was born at Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, Russia, on May 31 1866. He studied at the Moscow Conservatory with N. Klenovsky, a pupil of Peter Tchaikovsky, and proceeded to teach and play in concerts in various parts of Russia and Europe. He settled in Yalta in 1909 and composed various piano pieces and stage works until his death in 1920. His early works were mostly unremarkable salon pieces in the style of Tchaikovsky and Grieg. At some point in time he realized that he was being too influenced by these compositional models, and thus he closed himself off to the music of other composers, determined to forge his own compositional style through selfintrospection. He also b
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