KONSTANTIN NIKOLAYEVICH IGUMNOV (LEBEDYAN, TAMBOV
GOVERNORATE, RUSSIAN EMPIRE, MAY 1 [O.S. APRIL 19], 1873 – MOSCOW, SOVIET
UNION, MARCH 24, 1948)
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 Musical Society. From 1899 he was Professor at the
Moscow Conservatory, where his life’s work was carried out. He recorded 6
pieces on piano roll for the Welte-Mignon reproducing piano in 1910. Among his
many students were Arno Babajanian, Bolesław Kon, Naum Shtarkman, Elena
Beckman-Shcherbina, Yakov Flier, Boris Berlin, Lev Oborin, Maria Grinberg,
Andrzej Wasowski, Elena Laumenskienė, Ryszard Bakst, Tengiz Amirejibi, Anatoly
Alexandrov, Bella Davidovich, Rosa Tamarkina, Issay Dobrowen, and Mariya
Gambaryan. Igumnov was evacuated to Yerevan, Armenia during the first half of
1940s. During those years he was teaching at the local Conservatory, where his
70th anniversary was widely celebrated.
TRACKLIST
Konstantin Igumnov made 6
Welte-Mignon piano rolls
WELTE-MIGNON 2061 RACHMANINOFF
– Prelude, Op. 23, No. 1, f#
WELTE-MIGNON 2062 RACHMANINOFF
– Prelude, Op. 23, No. 6, Eb
WELTE-MIGNON 2063 SCRIABIN –
Sonata-Fantasie, Op. 19, No. 2, g#
WELTE-MIGNON 2064 BRAHMS –
Intermezzo, Op. 118, No. 6, eb
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