Boris Stepanovich Zakharov (December 1, 1887, St. Petersburg - January 30, 1943, Shanghai [1] ) is a Russian pianist and music teacher.
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| A country |  Russian empire  China |
| Professions | pianist and music teacher |
| Instruments | the piano |
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Biography
The son of the merchant of the 1st guild Stepan Nikolayevich Zakharov, a hereditary honorary citizen, a major timber merchant, and Yulia Andreevna Durdina, the daughter of a beer magnate Andrei Ivanovich Durdin. In addition to Boris, the family included Nikolai, Stepan, Pantelei, George, Vasily, Vera (in Khokhlov’s marriage), Maria (in Pavlovskaya’s marriage).
In 1906, Boris Zakharov met Sergei Prokofiev at the St. Petersburg Conservatory , where they studied in the class of composer A.K. Lyadov . Over time, the acquaintance grew into a friendship - Prokofiev even dedicated his minor prelude to him, and Boris Zakharov invited Prokofiev to stay at his father’s dacha in Terioki .
Since 1910, Prokofiev often visited the Zakharovs. S. S. Prokofiev in his "Diary" [2] wrote:
The Zakharov family is huge: six brothers, two sisters, plus two husbands from sisters, plus two wives from brothers, a total of twelve; there is no mother, and the father does not live in Terioki and only occasionally runs over.
By that time, they had already studied together in the class of A. N. Esipova ; in the summer of 1910 S. S. Prokofiev in the Diary admitted:
Many thanks to him that last spring he pulled and arranged me in the class of Esipova. It was a great service to me. It was such a service that hardly anyone has ever done to me. And I will always be grateful to him for this.
At the end of the conservatory (1913) Zakharov studied in Vienna with Godovsky , and since 1915 he taught at the St. Petersburg Conservatory at the department of special piano; since 1919 - professor [3]
In 1916 he married the violinist Cecilia Hansen ; in 1917 they had a daughter, Tatyana ( Tatisha ; in marriage, Tatyana Behr) [4] [5] .
Spouses Zakharova were participants in the evenings that took place at the Penates cottage in Repin .
In 1921 they moved abroad, where they performed a lot.
At the end of the 1920s, on tour in Japan, Boris Zakharov told his wife that he was tired of her stardom and of eternal accompaniment.
Zakharov settled in Shanghai , where in October 1929, on the recommendation of the violinist Fu Hua, he was offered a teaching job at the Shanghai Music Institute; not considering the successful training of the Chinese possible, he initially refused, he was still persuaded to become the head of the piano department and to teach seven Chinese students to play the piano, and soon he was forced to change his initial opinion: “I gladly admit that I was once mistaken in my assessment ... Chinese students give me great pleasure ” [6] .
Speaking at concerts, he introduced Chinese listeners to Russian classical music [3] . He was chairman of the Chamber Music Society and music section of the Shanghai Art Club.
He died on May 30, 1943 .
Literature
- Eisenstadt S. A. Three Fates. Russian emigrants Aksakov, Zakharov and Cherepnin and the culture of China // Questions of history and theory of piano performance / ed. R. E. Ilyukhina. - Vladivostok, 2008.
Notes
- ↑ Amir Khisamutdinov Russian emigration in China: the experience of the encyclopedia Publishing House of the Far Eastern University, 2001
- ↑ "Diary of S. S. Prokofiev"
- ↑ 1 2 U On Pedagogical activity of Professor B. S. Zakharov in Shanghai
- ↑ Shyness - a form of self-centeredness
- ↑ Tatiana Borisovna “Tatisha” Zakharova Behr (English)
- ↑ Juan Pin Boris Zakharov and his role in the formation of the Chinese piano school