sergei bortkiewicz

Sergei Bortkiewicz was a Russian Romantic composer and pianist (February 16, 1877 - October 25, 1952) Born in Kharkov and studied at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. Later, from 1900 to 1902, he studied at the Leipzig Conservatory under Alfred Reisenauer and Salomon Jadassohn. He made several European tours, but he was not suficiently gifted as a pianist to make a career as a soloist, unlike some of his contemporaries (Rachmaninov, Scriabin, Medtner). He eventually decided his strengths were teaching and composition, and taught at the Klindworth-Scarwenka Conservatory in Berlin from 1904 to 1914. He returned to Russia with the outbreak of the First World War, but left again after the Russian Revolution. After a two year stay in Constantinople, he finally settled in Vienna in 1922, dying there in 1952.

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