VLADIMIR
NIKOLAEVICH DROZDOV (SARATOV, RUSSIAN EMPIRE, MAY 25, 1882 - NEW YORK, NEW
YORK, USA, MARCH, 11, 1960)
He was born in the family of
Nikolai Vasilyevich Drozdov (pianist and composer) and Olga Aleksandrovna
Balmasheva-Drozdova (music teacher at the Saratov Musical College). He was the
eldest child of three sons who became musicians. He received his general
education at the Saratov Real School, studied music at the Saratov College of
Music (now the Saratov Conservatory) and at the St. Petersburg Conservatory,
where he studied piano with Anna Esipova and composition with Nikolai
Rimsky-Korsakov. Later he improved with T. Leshetitsky in Vienna. Vladimir
Drozdov gave concerts in Russia and abroad. From 1907 he was a teacher (in
1914-1917 - professor) of the Petrograd Conservatory. From 1923 he lived
abroad, settling in the USA, where he gave concerts and taught in his own
studio in New York. He died March 11, 1960 in New York. The original
manuscripts of the composer are in the Scientific Library of the St. Petersburg
Conservatory and in the personal collection of the family. He was married to
Anna Drozdova, a talented graduate of the St. Petersburg Conservatory. Their
children, daughter Natalya and son Pavel, studied music in their father's studio.
They gave concerts both together and individually. He was co-founder of the
Pushkin Society of America.
TRACKLIST
1953 WELTE-MIGNON DROZDOV –
Marionettentanz (Marionette Dance) D-Dur.
1955 WELTE-MIGNON TCHAIKOVSKY –
Meditation, Op. 72, No. 5, D
1956 TCHAIKOVSKY – “The Months”,
Op. 37a, No. 11 November (Troika)
1957 WELTE-MIGNON LIAPOUNOFF – Transcendental Etudes, Op. 11, No. 3 Carillon
