Yakov Zak
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Yakov Izrailevich Zak ( (Template:Langx), Jiakov Israilevič Sak; Odessa, 20 November [O.S. 7 November] 1913 – Moscow, 28 June 1976) was a Soviet and Russian pianist and pedagogue. People's Artist of the USSR (1966).
Born in Odessa, Zak studied piano at the Odessa Conservatory with Maria Starkhova, took classes on special harmony with Mykola Vilinsky, and later studied with Heinrich Neuhaus in Moscow, graduating in 1935.[1] Having made his debut in 1935, he rose to prominence[2] when he won First Prize and the Mazurka Prize at the III International Chopin Piano Competition in 1937. From 1935 Zak taught at the Moscow Conservatory, becoming a professor in 1947 and being granted a chair in 1965. His pupils include Eliso Virsaladze, Alexandr Sklioutovski, Irina Zaritskaya, Nikolai Petrov, Evgeny Mogilevsky, Svetlana Navasardyan, Lyubov Timofeyeva, Valery Afanassiev, Ludmila Knezkova-Hussey, Vladimir Bakk, and Youri Egorov.
References
- Yakov Zak, biography
- Yakov Zak, Stat'i, Materially, Vospominaniia (Papers, Documents, Memoirs), Moscow, "Sovetskii Kompozitor", 1980 [1]
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- 1913 births
- 1976 deaths
- Soviet classical composers
- Musicians from Odesa
- Communist Party of the Soviet Union members
- Moscow Conservatory alumni
- Academic staff of Moscow Conservatory
- People's Artists of the RSFSR
- People's Artists of the USSR
- Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
- International Chopin Piano Competition winners
- Jewish classical composers
- Jewish classical pianists
- Ukrainian classical pianists
- Odesa Jews
- Russian classical pianists
- Russian male classical composers
- Russian music educators
- Soviet classical pianists
- Soviet male classical composers
- Soviet music educators
- Burials at Kuntsevo Cemetery