Konstantin Igumnov plays Liadov “Variations sur un thème de Glinka“ Op. 35

live, 1947 Konstantin Nicolayevich Igumnov (Russian: Константи́н Никола́евич Игу́мнов; May 1 [O.S. April 19], 1873, Lebedyan -- March 24, 1948) was a Russian virtuoso pianist and the teacher of many famous Russian pianists. Igumnov studied under Nikolai Zverev, and at Moscow Conservatory under Alexander Siloti and Pavel Pabst. He took theory and composition courses from Sergei Taneyev, Anton Arensky and Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov. In 1898-9 he was pianoforte teacher at the Tiflis music-school of the Rus