Composers

Felix Blumenfeld

Piano
Voice
Cello
Orchestra
Violin
Viola
Piece
Étude
Suite
Dance
Melody
Song
Fantasia
Impromptu
Nocturne
Prelude
by popularity

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10 Moments lyriques, Op.272 Etude-Fantasies for Piano, Op.252 Etudes for Piano, Op.292 Impromptus for Piano, Op.452 Impromptus, Op.132 Lyric Fragments, Op.472 Moments dramatiques, Op.502 Nocturnes, Op.62 Pieces for Cello & Piano, Op.192 Pieces, Op.222 Pieces, Op.372 Pieces, Op.492 Pieces, Op.5324 Preludes for Piano, Op.173 Etudes for Piano, Op.33 Mazurkas, Op.353 Nocturnes, Op.513 Pieces for Piano, Op.214 Etudes for Piano, Op.444 Morceaux, Op.24 Preludes for Piano, Op.125 Mélodies, Op.55 Romances, Op.426 Mélodies, Op.16 Mélodies, Op.156 Mélodies, Op.96 Pieces, Op.38

A

Allegro de concert, Op.7

B

Ballade in the Form of Variations, Op.34

C

Cloches, Op.40

E

Episodes dans la Vie d'une Danseuse, Op.52Etude de Concert, Op.24Etude for the Left-Hand, Op.36Etude, Op.54Etude-Fantasy No.3, Op.48

F

Fragments caractéristiques, Op.33

I

Impromptu for Piano, Op.28

L

Lyrical Suite, Op.32

M

Mazurka, Op.11

N

Nocturne-Fantasie for Piano, Op.20

P

Printemps, Op.41

S

Sonate-Fantasie, Op.46String QuartetSuite Polonaise No.1, Op.23Suite Polonaise No.2, Op.31Sur mer, Op.14Symphony, Op.39

V

Valse-Etude, Op.4Valse-Impromptu, Op.16Variations caractéristiques, Op.8
Wikipedia
Felix Mikhailovich Blumenfeld (Russian: Фе́ликс Миха́йлович Блуменфе́льд; 19 April 1863 [O.S. 7 April] – 21 January 1931) was a Russian composer, conductor of the Imperial Opera St-Petersburg, pianist, and teacher.
He was born in Kirovograd (in present-day Ukraine), Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire, the son of Mikhail Frantsevich Blumenfeld, of Austrian Jewish origin, and the Pole Maria Szymanowska. He studied composition at the St. Petersburg Conservatory under Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and piano under Fedor Stein between 1881 and 1885. He then taught piano there himself from 1885 until 1918, whilst also serving as conductor of the Mariinsky Theatre until 1911.
The Mariinsky saw the premieres of the operas composed by his mentor Rimsky-Korsakov. He was also the conductor at the Russian premiere of Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde.
In 1908, he conducted the Paris premiere of Modest Mussorgsky's opera Boris Godunov.
From 1918 to 1922, he was the director of the Music-drama school of Mykola Lysenko in Kiev, where, amongst others, Vladimir Horowitz was a pupil in his masterclasses. He returned to the Moscow Conservatory in 1922, teaching there until his death. Other famous pupils of his include Simon Barere, Maria Yudina, Anatole Kitain and Maria Grinberg. He died in Moscow.
As a pianist, he played many of the compositions of his Russian contemporaries. His own compositions, which showed the influence of Frédéric Chopin and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, include a symphony, pieces for solo piano, an Allegro de Concert for piano and orchestra, and lieder. His virtuoso pieces for piano in particular have enjoyed something of a renaissance in recent years.
He was the uncle of Heinrich Neuhaus and first cousin, once removed of Karol Szymanowski (Felix and Karol's father, Stanislaw Szymanowski, were cousins).