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After studying mathematics at [[Moscow]] University, he graduated with outstanding honours in 1884. While working in his father's commercial business, he began taking lessons in piano and harmony, and travelled to [[Berlin]] in 1885 to study under [[Karl Klindworth]]. The following year he met Tchaikovsky in [[Moscow]], who encouraged Katuar's compositional aspirations, and on his recommendation he received lessons from [[Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov]] and [[Anatoly Lyadov]] in [[Saint Petersburg]]. | After studying mathematics at [[Moscow]] University, he graduated with outstanding honours in 1884. While working in his father's commercial business, he began taking lessons in piano and harmony, and travelled to [[Berlin]] in 1885 to study under [[Karl Klindworth]]. The following year he met Tchaikovsky in [[Moscow]], who encouraged Katuar's compositional aspirations, and on his recommendation he received lessons from [[Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov]] and [[Anatoly Lyadov]] in [[Saint Petersburg]]. | ||
In 1919 Katuar became professor of composition at the [[Moscow]] Conservatory, and was the author of several musicological text books. | In 1919, Katuar became professor of composition at the [[Moscow]] Conservatory, and was the author of several musicological text books. | ||
==Correspondence with Tchaikovsky== | ==Correspondence with Tchaikovsky== | ||
Revision as of 14:44, 15 November 2022
Russian composer and musicologist, of French descent (b. 15/27 April 1861 in Moscow; d. 21 May 1926 in Moscow), as Georgy Lvovich Katuar (Георгий Львович Катуар), also known as Yegor Lvovich Katuar (Егор Львович Катуар), or outside Russia as Georges Catoire.
After studying mathematics at Moscow University, he graduated with outstanding honours in 1884. While working in his father's commercial business, he began taking lessons in piano and harmony, and travelled to Berlin in 1885 to study under Karl Klindworth. The following year he met Tchaikovsky in Moscow, who encouraged Katuar's compositional aspirations, and on his recommendation he received lessons from Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov and Anatoly Lyadov in Saint Petersburg.
In 1919, Katuar became professor of composition at the Moscow Conservatory, and was the author of several musicological text books.
Correspondence with Tchaikovsky
7 letters from Tchaikovsky to Georgy Katuar have survived, dating from 1886 to 1887, of which those highlighted in bold have been translated into English on this website:
- Letter 2851 – 13/25 January 1886, from Maydanovo
- Letter 2884 – 13/25 February 1886, from Maydanovo
- Letter 2958 – 27 May/8 June 1886, from Paris
- Letter 3035 – 30 August/11 September 1886, from Maydanovo
- Letter 3243 – 27 April/9 May 1887, from Maydanovo
- Letter 3409 – 18/30 November 1887, from Maydanovo
- Letter 3425 – late November/early December 1887, from Moscow.
9 letters from Georgy Katuar to Tchaikovsky, dating from 1886 to 1888, are preserved in the Klin House-Museum archive.
Bibliography
- Переписка П. И. Чайковского и Г. Л. Катуара (1945)
- Der Briefwechsel zwischen P. I. Čajkovskij und Egor L. Catoire (2008)
- П. И. Чайковский-Г. Л. Катуар. История педагогическич отношений (2015)
