Nicolai Soloviev, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Nicolai Soloviev

Russian music critic and composer

Date of Birth: 27-Apr-1846

Place of Birth: Petrozavodsk, Karelia, Russia

Date of Death: 14-Dec-1916

Profession: composer, music critic, musicologist, music pedagogue

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Nicolai Feopemptovich Soloviev (Russian: ??????´? ?????´??????? ????????; Petrozavodsk, 9 May [O.S.
27 April] 1846 – 27 December [O.S.
14 December] 1916 in Petrograd (Saint Petersburg)), sometimes Solovyov, was a Russian music critic, composer, and teacher at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory.
His notable composition students include Samuel Maykapar, Mihkel Lüdig, Artur Lemba, and Peeter Süda.
See: List of music students by teacher: R to S#Nicolai Soloviev.
Soloviev composed several operas, an overture, the symphonic poem Russians and Mongols, and assisted in the completion of Alexander Serov's opera, The Power of the Fiend.As a music critic, Soloviev supported the works of composers such as Modest Mussorgsky and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, while trouncing the work of other composers.
Of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto he wrote, "Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto, like the first pancake, is a flop."