Some Important Pupils of Alexander Michalowski [ Ссылка ]... Vladimir Sofronitzky was born in St Petersburg in 1901, .In 1903, his family moved to Warsaw where he later began his studies with Alexander Michalowski at the age of nine. 1n 1916, Sofronitzky entered the St. Petersburg Conservatory where he studied with Professor Leonid Nicolaev. Before graduating cum laude in 1921, he married Alexander Scriabins eldest daughter Elena, a fellow student. After graduation, Sofronitzky began a highly successful career which, unfortunately, was nearly totally confined to the Soviet Union. He only played in the West once after 1930 when Stalin sent him to play at the Potsdam conference in 1945. As did Anton Rubinstein before him, Sofronitzky gave a series of 12 historical recitals in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) during 1937 performing music from Buxtehude to Shostakovich.. His playing was highly admired by Heinrich Neuhaus, (also a student of Michalowski), Vladimir Horowitz, Egon Petri and former classmates Maria Yudina and Dmitry Shostakovich. A Sofronitzky performance was regarded as a unique event and after the war, he was generally considered to be the finest pianist in Russia. Vladimir Sofronitzky died in 1961.
Some Important Pupils of Alexander Michalowski HEINRICH NEUHAUS (1888-1964)
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