Alexander Goedicke
Composer
1877 – 1957
Who was Alexander Goedicke?
Alexander Fyodorovich Goedicke was a Russian composer and pianist.
Goedicke was a professor at Moscow Conservatory. With no formal training in composition, he studied piano at the Moscow Conservatory with Galli, Pavel Pabst and Vasily Safonov. Goedicke won the Anton Rubinstein Competition in 1900. Despite his lack of traditional guidance, his compositional efforts were rewarded when he won the Rubinstein Prize for Composition at the young age of 23. Goedicke died at the age of 80 on July 9, 1957.
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.
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- Born
- Mar 4, 1877
Moscow - Also known as
- Goedicke Alexander
- Alexander Fyodorovich Gedike
- Education
- Moscow Conservatory
- Died
- Jul 9, 1957
Moscow
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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