Incidentally, this poem inspired an early-20th century composer, Georgi Catoire ( the setting of the poem in the song Silentium ), while another one of Tyutchev's poems, " O chem ty voesh ' vetr nochnoy ...", was the inspiration for Nikolai Medtner's Night Wind piano sonata (# 7 ) of 1911.

It opens slowly with one of Medtner's most memorable themes and closes with an animated coda ( Allegro molto doppio movimento, in D major ) based on the second subject.

The first movement opens with one of Medtner's lovely pastoral melodies.

This single movement is one of Medtner's most poetic creations ; as the title indicates, its character is nostalgic and wistful.

It was dedicated to the Canadian pianist and pupil of Scriabin, Alfred La Liberté, one of Medtner's most loyal supporters.

The book is available in a German translation by Christoph Flamm and is notable for the two CDs it contains with original recordings of a variety of Medtner's works.

A few of the contributors were: Alfred Swan, translator of Medtner's The Muse and the Fashion into English, Ivan Ilyin, Ernest Newman, Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, Marcel Dupré, Russian music critic Leonid Sabeneev, Canadian pianist and close friend of the composer Alfred La Liberté, singers Margaret Ritchie, Tatania Makushina and Oda Slobodskaya, and Medtner himself via extracts from Muse and the Fashion.

Svetlanov was also an extremely fine pianist, two notable recordings being Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Trio No. 2 in D minor, and a disc of Nikolai Medtner's piano music.

There have been numerous dissertations on Medtner's music.

30, was published without a title but was known as the " War Sonata " among Medtner's friends ; a footnote " during the war 1914-1917 " appeared in the 1959 Collected Edition.

Alexander Goedicke was Nikolai Medtner's first cousin.

Alexander's father Fyodor Goedicke, a minor composer and pianist, was Medtner's mother's brother and his first teacher.

The emotional center of this compact work ( sixteen minutes in duration ) is the Interludium: Andante lugubre: this comprises most of the development section and contains some of Medtner's loveliest harmonies.

There is some repetition of themes in this set as well — the piece which precedes the Sonata, " Canzona Matinata ", contains a theme which recurs in the Sonata, and according to Medtner's wishes both pieces are to be played attacca — without pause.

Despite his conservative musical tastes, Medtner's compositions and his pianism were highly regarded by his contemporaries.

At the outbreak of the Second World War, Medtner's income from German publishers disappeared, and during this hardship ill-health became an increasing problem.

He founded the Medtner Society to record all of Medtner's works.

These historic recordings demonstrate Medtner's forceful magnetic pianism and creative personality, generally undimmed by his undoubtedly failing health.

Medtner's craft gained subtlety and complexity in later years, but this work is already evidence of his mastery of musical structure.

Geoffrey Tozer recorded almost all of Medtner's works for the piano including all the concertos and sonatas.

Other pianists who championed Medtner's work and left behind recordings include Benno Moiseiwitsch, Sviatoslav Richter, Edna Iles, Emil Gilels, Yevgeny Svetlanov and Earl Wild.

After Medtner's death, the Mysore Foundation sponsored the publication of Medtner: A Memorial Volume, also titled Nicolas Medtner ( 1879-1951 ): A Tribute to his Art and Personality.

In 2003, David J. Skvorak wrote a doctoral thesis Thematic unity in Nicolas Medtner's works for piano: Skazki, sonatas, and piano quintet at the University of Cincinnati, published by UMI.

It contains theoretical analyses of several of Medtner's works.

While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.

These lines never cease to haunt the book amidst all the exaltations of combat, and to make an appeal for a larger and more elemental human community than one based on the brutal necessities of war.

In his recent book, Hurray For Anything ( 1957 ), one of the most important short poems -- and it is the title poem for one of the long jazz arrangements -- is written for recital with jazz.

But the one that upset the financially wise was the professional dancer who related in a book how he parlayed his earnings into a $2,000,000 profit on the stock market.

most modern adapters totally accept the world of a book, squeeze it dry of life, and add only one contribution of their own: stage technique.

They crowded the small room and peered over one another's shoulders to watch the handless man write his name in the book.

This might be said to be an upper- or an upper-middle-class bias, but the Commission published as one of its staff studies a book by Byron S. Hollingshead entitled Who Should Go To College??

In one now-historic first interview, for example, the transcript ( reproduced from the book, The First Five Minutes ) goes like this: The therapist's level tone is bland and neutral -- he has, for example, avoided stressing `` you '', which would imply disapproval ; ;

Mrs. Child, who had once apologized for sending editor Palfrey a book on slavery, now confided that she had helped one of Henry Palfrey's slaves escape to Canada some years before, but asked him not to advertise the fact in Louisiana.

If there had been, he would have found a loophole, because Arnold is one golfer who knows the code as thoroughly as the man who wrote the book.

This is a remarkable book and an astonishingly interesting one.

Unhappily, `` Heaven Has No Favorites '' does not alter the record except to add one more bad book to the list.

There is one volume of Aristotle's concerning logic not found in the Organon, namely the fourth book of Metaphysics.

Animalia is an alliterative alphabet book and contains twenty-six illustrations, one for each letter of the alphabet.

To find an object, such as globular cluster NGC 6712, one does not need to look up the RA and Dec coordinates in a book, and then move the telescope to those numerical readings.

John Hick also raises some questions regarding personal identity in his book, Death and Eternal Life using an interesting example of a person ceasing to exist in one place while an exact replica appears in another.

The former option is one presented in the book ; the latter is known in the Amber community as an " Amethyst " game.

It was originally one of between 50 to 70 verses of a song titled " Jerusalem, My Happy Home " that first appeared in a 1790 book called A Collection of Sacred Ballads:

" Dr. Silverstein recalls he chose the name after perusing a book of mythology at home one evening, early in 1960.

The Dodo, who in this adaptation of the book is named Uilleam and is portrayed by Michael Gough, bears a down of brilliant blue and is one of Alice's advisers, who also took first note of her identity as the true Alice.

The Book of Amos is a prophetic book of the Hebrew Bible, one of the Twelve Minor Prophets.

A person who participates in archery is typically known as an " archer " or " bowman ", and one who is fond of or an expert at archery can be referred to as a " toxophilite ".< ref > The noun " toxophilite ", meaning " a lover or devotee of archery, an archer ", is derived from Toxophilus by Roger Ascham —" imaginary proper name invented by Ascham, and hence title of his book ( 1545 ), intended to mean ' lover of the bow '.

Within this structure, the sub-points of the book are marked by a series of summary statements, or what one commentary calls a " progress report ".