Samuil Feinberg
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 – 22 October 1962, Moscow
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) was a Russia
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n and Soviet composer
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 and pianist
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. Raised in Moscow
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, he entered the Moscow Conservatory
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 and studied under Alexander Goldenweiser. He is most remembered today for his complete recording of Bach's
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 The Well-Tempered Clavier
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and many transcriptions. Feinberg was awarded the Stalin Prize in 1946. He also composed a dozen piano sonatas as well as fantasias and other works for the instrument, and 3 Piano Concertos which have been for the most part neglected in the standard repertoire.

Honours and awards

  • Stalin Prize - 1946
  • Order of Lenin
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  • Honoured Artist of the RSFSR (1937)

Compositions for solo piano

  • 1915 Sonata No. 1, Op. 1
  • 1915 Sonata No. 2, Op. 2
  • 1917 Sonata No. 3, Op. 3
  • 1917 Fantasia No. 1, Op. 5
  • 1918 Sonata No. 4, Op. 6
  • 1920 Four Preludes, Op. 8
  • 1921 Fantasia No. 2, Op. 9
  • 1921 Sonata No. 5, Op. 10
  • 1922 Suite No. 1, Op. 11
  • 1923 Sonata No. 6, Op. 13
    Piano Sonata No. 6 (Feinberg)
    The Piano Sonata No. 6, Op. 13, by Samuil Feinberg was composed in 1923. The piece received its premiere on 4 September 1925 at the Festival of Contemporary Music in Venice. Its premiere was attended by famous composers of the time such as Igor Stravinsky and Arnold Schoenberg...

  • 1922 Three Preludes, Op. 15
  • —--- Humoresque, Op. 19
  • —--- Berceuse, Op. 19a
  • 1925 Sonata No. 7, Op. 21
  • 1928 Sonata No. 8, Op. 21
  • —--- Two Chuvash Melodies, Op. 24a
  • 1931 Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 20
  • 1936 Suite No. 2, Op. 25
  • 1938 Three Melodies, Op. 27a
  • 1939 Sonata No. 9, Op. 29
  • —--- Sonata No. 10, Op. 30
  • 1944 Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 36
  • 1947 Tale, Op. 33
  • 1947 Piano Concerto No. 3, Op. 44
  • 1946 Procession
  • 1952 Sonata No. 11 Op. 40
  • 1962 Sonata No. 12 Op. 48
  • 1962 Children's Album WoO

Transcriptions, arrangements, and cadenzas for solo piano

  • —--- Two Cadenzas to Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4, Op. 17
  • —--- Three Arrangements from Tchaikovsky's Symphonies, Op. 31
  • 1918 Bach-Vivaldi Concerto, Op. 35
  • 1956 Bach: Organ Prelude and Fugue (E Minor), Op.. 37
  • —--- Bach: Largo from Organ Sonata (C Major), Op. 38
  • —--- Four Cadenzas to Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21, K. 467, Op. 41
  • —--- Nocturne from Borodin's String Quartet No. 2, Op. 42
  • —--- Arrangements of Tchaikovsky's Three Songs for Children, Op. 43


WoO
  • —--- Bach, Thirteen Chorale Preludes
  • —--- Borodin, Alexander, String Quartet No. 2: Scherzo
  • —--- Corelli, Arcangelo, Two Sarabandes (from violin sonatas)
  • —--- Frescobaldi, Girolamo, Canzone, Sonata
  • —--- Locatelli, Pietro, Fragment of a Concerto
  • —--- Marcello, Benedetto, Prelude, Three Fragments from Cantatas
  • —--- Mussorgsky, Modest, Songs and Dances of Death: Serenade

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