Konstantin Igumnov plays Liadov “Variations sur un thème de Glinka“ Op. 35

live, 1947 Konstantin Nicolayevich Igumnov (Russian: Константи́н Никола́евич Игу́мнов; May 1 [O.S. April 19], 1873, Lebedyan -- March 24, 1948) was a Russian virtuoso pianist and the teacher of many famous Russian pianists. Igumnov studied under Nikolai Zverev, and at Moscow Conservatory under Alexander Siloti and Pavel Pabst. He took theory and composition courses from Sergei Taneyev, Anton Arensky and Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov. In 1898-9 he was pianoforte teacher at the Tiflis music-school of the Russian Music Society. From 1899 he was Professor at the Moscow Conservatory, where his life’s work was carried out. Among his many students were Bolesław Kon, Naum Shtarkman, Elena Beckman-Scherbina, Yakov Flier, Lev Oborin, Maria Grinberg, Andrzej Wasowski, Ryszard Bakst, Anatoly Nikolayevich Alexandrov, Natalia Satina (wife of Rachmaninoff), Aleksandr Iokheles, Bella Davidovich, and the conductor Issay Dobrowen. (Wikipedia)