Ekaterina Levental/Frank Peters - Medtner: Geweihter Platz / Sacred Place, Complete Songs, volume 5

The 5th and last issue in the recording of the complete songs by Medtner! Nikolai Medtner was born in Moscow in 1880. After piano lessons with his mother he entered the Moscow Conservatory where he had lessons from Pavel Pabst and Sergey Taneyev. He won the prestigious Anton Rubinstein Prize at age 20. A younger contemporary of Scriabin and Rachmaninoff he was destined for a brilliant pianistic career but he chose to concentrate on composition. In 1936 he settled in London where he spent the rest of his life teaching and composing till 1951..