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Gustav Kross () was a Russian pianist and teacher. He is remembered for little more than being the soloist at the first (failed) Russian performance of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1. ==Biography== Gustav Gustavovich Kross was born in Saint Petersburg in 1831. He gave solo piano recitals from the 1850s. He was an enthusiastic supporter of the Russian Musical Society 1859-67.〔(Philip Taylor: ''Anton Rubinstein, A Life in Music'' )〕 In 1862 he was among the first group of students at the fledgling Saint Petersburg Conservatory, where he studied under Anton Rubinstein〔( Natalya V. Lundtvedt: ''Rachmaninoff and Russian pianism: Performance issues in the Piano Concerto in C minor, Opus 18'' )〕〔(Ruby Cheng: ''Rachmaninoff the composer-pianist: Aspects of pianism in his Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor'' )〕 and Adolf von Henselt. In 1865 he was in the inaugural class of graduates, along with Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and others.〔(Francis Maes, ''Geschiedenis Van de Russiche Muziek'' )〕〔 From 1867 Kross taught piano at the Conservatory. Among his pupils were Vladimir Demyansky and Anna Ornatskaya, who were both early teachers of Sergei Rachmaninoff.〔〔 He is credited with the first performance in Russia of Franz Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 2 in A. There is a note of his performance of Litolff's ''Concerto Symphonique'' No. 4 in D minor, Op. 102.〔(Odoevskiy V.F.: ''Dnevnik. Perepiska. Materialy, Memuary'' )〕 But his name is most often associated with the first Russian performance of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor. This occurred in Saint Petersburg on 1/13 November 1875,〔(Tchaikovsky Research )〕 just under three weeks after its world premiere by Hans von Bülow in Boston, Mass., in the United States (25 October). Kross played under the baton of the conductor Eduard Nápravník, and in the presence of the composer. His performance was by all accounts execrable. Tchaikovsky referred to it as "an atrocious cacophony",〔Letter to Lev Abramovich Kupernik, 26 November/8 December 1875, in ''П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений'', Vol. V (1959), p. 421, quoted in Alexander Poznansky: ''Tchaikovsky: The Quest for the Inner Man'', p. 166〕 and the critics were similarly negative, but they extended their remarks to the quality of the concerto itself. One critic said the concerto (Tchaikovsky's first concertante work) was "like the first pancake ...a flop".〔(Naxos )〕 Tchaikovsky then chose Sergei Taneyev for the Moscow premiere, and was so delighted with the result that Taneyev premiered all Tchaikovsky's later works for piano and orchestra and his Piano Trio in A minor.〔(Toccata Classics )〕 Gustav Kross died in the city of his birth in 1885, aged only 54. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gustav Kross」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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