Delightfully Melodic Music by Matvey Nikolaevsky - heard by GERALD FENECH '... immensely enjoyable stuff ...'

Matvey Nikolaevsky was born in Moscow on 28 June 1882, and, like his brother Fyodor, who later became a celebrated military bandmaster, inherited his love of music from his father Josif. When Matvey was two, his mother Maria died, and his father got married again, this time to a certain Sofia Mikhailovna. Aged ten, he entered the Moscow Conservatoire, where he was specially instructed in piano playing...

MOSCOW

RUSSIA

VOCAL MUSIC

PIANO MUSIC

ORCHESTRAL MUSIC

TOCCATA CLASSICS