Felix Blumenfeld 2 Impromptus Op. 45 (audio + sheet music)

Felix Mikhailovich Blumenfeld (19 April 1863 7 April 21 January 1931) was a Russian composer, conductor, pianist, and teacher. He was born in Kovalevka, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire (today part of Kirovohrad, Ukraine), the son of Austrian Mikhail Frantsevich Blumenfeld and the Polish Marie Szymanowska, and studied composition at the St. Petersburg Conservatory under Nikolai RimskyKorsakov and piano under Fedor Stein between 1881 and 1885. He then taught piano there himself from 1885 un