Ukrainian Soviet pianist, composer, teacher, representative of a famous Russian family of Tatar origin. Honored Professor of the Ukrainian SSR (1926).
Graduated from the Moscow Conservatory, piano class of V. Safonov (1900). He studied with F. Busoni in Berlin.
From 1913 he was a professor at the Kyiv Conservatory, from 1923-1934 - at the Lysenko Music and Drama Institute.
Creativity.
He popularized Ukrainian piano music. The first performer of Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition in Moscow. He performed as part of a trio (David Bertier, Stefan Wilkonsky) performing works by Vasyl Barvinsky, Borys Liatoshynsky, Vasyl Zolotaryov, and others.
He is the author of plays, etudes, preludes, piano transcriptions, as well as curricula, methodological developments, and manuals.
Among his students are Yevhen Slivak, Matvii Hozenpud, Abram Lufer, and Hryhorii Kurkovskyi.
Scientific works
Psychophysical foundations of modern piano technique // Soviet music. - 1939. - No. 4.
