“He will soon be forgotten.”

November 6, 2011

  “According to all testimony, his life had run a dissipated course between wine and card-playing. . . He will be soon forgotten.” (Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov – My Musical Life) Never have your teacher write your obituary. Particularly when he gets it wrong . . . Rimsky didn’t mention that Anton Arensky, his Russian student, wrote […]

2011 | Quartets Series | Tags: Arensky, gryphon, Keith Horner, piano trio