Konstantin Eiges’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro Russian composer, teacher and pianist
A.K.A. Konstantin Romanovich Eiges
Was Musician 
Pianist 
Composer 
Musicologist 
Music educator 
Educator 
From Russia 
Type Academia 
Music 
Gender male
Birth 24 May 1875, Bohodukhiv, Ukraine
Death 2 December 1950, Moscow, Russia
(aged 75 years)
Star sign Gemini
Education
Moscow Conservatory
Instruments:
Piano

Konstantin Romanovich Eiges (surname sometimes spelt Eyges, Russian Константин Романович Эйгес, 24 May (Old Style)/ 5 June 1875—2 Dec 1950) was a Russian composer, teacher and pianist.

Early life

Eiges was born in Bogodukhov (now Bohodukhiv in Kharkiv oblast, Ukraine), to Jewish parents, the doctor Ruvim Manasiyevich (also known as Roman Mikhailovich) Eiges (born Vilnius, 1840) and his wife Sofiya (Shifra) Iosifovna, née Eltsin. He was one of ten children, many of whom went on to artistic or academic careers; Vladimir Eiges (1877-1949) was a professor of mathematics, Aleksandr (1880-1943), also a mathematician, was an authority on Anton Chekhov, Veniamin (1888-1956) was an artist, Yekaterina (1890-1958) was a poet and sometime girlfriend of Sergei Esenin.

Career

Eiges attended Moscow Conservatory between 1900 and 1905, where his teachers included Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov (composition), Sergei Taneyev (counterpoint) and Adolf Yaroshevsky (piano). He was a colleague of Sergei Rachmaninoff and Nikolai Medtner. His pupils included Alexei Stanchinsky. Most of his compositions are for piano solo, though he also wrote songs and chamber works, a cantata The Song of Oleg the Wise, and a symphonic poem, The Snowstorm. Eiges wrote numerous essays on music and philosophy, including essays on Richard Wagner and Alexander Skriabin.

Family

Eiges was the father of the composer Oleg Eiges (1905-1992) and the artist Sergei Eiges (1910-1944).

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