Findeisen, Nikolai (Fyodorovich)
Findeisen, Nikolai (Fyodorovich)
Findeisen, Nikolai (Fyodorovich) , Russian music historian and editor; b. St. Petersburg, July 23, 1868; d. there (Leningrad), Sept. 20, 1928. He studied with Nicolai Sokolov. In 1893 he founded the Russian Musical Gazette and remained its ed. until it ceased publication in 1917. His writings include monographs on Verstovsky (1890), Serov (1900; 2nd ed., aug., 1904), Dargomyzhsky (1902), Anton Rubinstein (1905), and Rimsky-Korsakov (1908). He also publ. a series of brochures and books on Glinkaithe first vol. of a projected large biography, Glinka in Spain, appeared in 1896; a catalog of Glinka’s MSS, letters, and portraits was publ. in 1898; and he also ed. Glinka’s correspondence (2 vols., 1907–08). Findeisen’s major achievement was the extensive history of Russian music up to the year 1800, publ. in 2 vols. (partly posth.) in Leningrad (1928–29), under the title Sketches of Music in Russia from the Most Ancient Times until the End of the 18th Century.
—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire