thumb|250px|right|Vladimir Rebikov, Postcard, (1910)
Vladimir Ivanovich Rebikov (, ); born May 31 [OS May 19] 1866 - Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, Russia — died October 1, 1920 - Yalta, Crimea) was a late romantic 20th-century Russian composer and pianist.
Biography
Born into a family of distant Tatar ancestry, Rebikov began studying the piano with his mother. His sisters also were pianists. He graduated from the Moscow University faculty of philology. He studied at the Moscow Conservatory with Nikolai Klenovsky, a pupil of Tchaikovsky, and then for three years in Berlin and Vienna with K. Mayrberger (music theory), O. Jasch (instrumentation), and T. Müller (piano). Rebikov taught and also held successful concerts in various parts of the Russian Empire: Moscow, Odessa, Kishinev, Yalta, as well as in Berlin, Vienna, Prague, Leipzig, Florence and Paris, where he met Claude Debussy, Oskar Nedbal, Zdeněk Nejedlý, and others. <!-- source does not confirm (nor deny) all of the places mentioned here, just a couple -->Rebikov settled in Yalta in 1909.
Works and style
Early works suggest the influence of Peter Tchaikovsky and Grieg. and Divine Art Recordings, and are widely accessible on Spotify, bringing his music to new audiences. In academic circles, Dr. Ivan Hurd's 2023 presentation at the MTNA National Conference examined Rebikov’s evolving compositional style.
Bibliography
Catalogue of Rebikov's Works, Moscow, 1913
Tompakova, O.: Rebikolv, entry in Creative Portraits of Composers, Moscow 1989 (in Russian).
External links
- Biography at answers.com
- Song texts
- Mir Imen
- Karadar