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Ievgen Malikov

Ievgen Malikov

Creator and editor of Music Lineage. He graduated from Zaporizhzhia Music College with a focus on piano in 2004 and from Kharkiv Pedagogical Institute with a degree in music education in 2010.

He worked as a piano teacher and accompanist at a music school and was a prizewinner in local, regional, and international competitions.

Since 2012, he has worked in IT. Music Lineage brings together his musical background and technical experience.

Articles

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Powdered Wigs, Leather Jackets
Powdered Wigs, Leather Jackets
February 4, 2026
In the popular imagination, the history of music is often compartmentalized into rigid genres, separated by high walls of time and style.
Whispered Secrets of the Studio
Whispered Secrets of the Studio
January 25, 2026
The history of Western classical music is often taught as a series of distinct, geological strata: the orderly gardens of the Classical era,...
The Myth of the Lone Virtuoso
The Myth of the Lone Virtuoso
January 10, 2026
There’s a familiar myth about great pianists: that they appear like comets—solitary, blazing, unrepeatable.
Touch, Timing, Taste
Touch, Timing, Taste
January 10, 2026
A great pianist can make a single note feel inevitable—so right it seems as if the composer placed it there by hand.
Bellini’s Mathematical Prison
Bellini’s Mathematical Prison
January 4, 2026
In 1819, a handsome, melancholy eighteen-year-old named Vincenzo Bellini stepped off a boat in Naples.
Wagner’s Ring Without Wagner
Wagner’s Ring Without Wagner
January 4, 2026
In the vast, chaotic constellation of music history, we are often taught to navigate by the brightest stars.

People

Azon Fattakh
Azon Fattakh
Azon Fattakh, born Azantin Nurtynovich Fatakhutdinov, was a Soviet Tatar pianist and composer. He was born on April 1, 1922, in the village...
Anushavan Ter-Gevondyan
Anushavan Ter-Gevondyan
Anushavan Ter-Gevondyan was an Armenian and Soviet composer, musicologist, and folklorist. He was born on March 8, 1887, in Tiflis and died...
Yuri Slonov
Yuri Slonov
Yuri Slonov was a Soviet songwriter and composer. He was born on July 14, 1906, in Moscow. In 1936 he graduated from the Moscow Conservatory...
Yevgeny Svetlanov
Yevgeny Svetlanov
Yevgeny Svetlanov was a Soviet and Russian conductor, composer, pianist, and publicist. He was born on September 6, 1928, in Moscow. He stud...
Sigismund Katz
Sigismund Katz
Sigismund Katz was a Soviet composer. He was born on April 4, 1908, in Vienna. In 1915 his family returned to the Russian Empire and settled...
Vera Gerchik
Vera Gerchik
Vera Gerchik was a Soviet composer, teacher, and choirmaster. She was a member of the Union of Soviet Composers and an Honored Artist. She w...
Sergey Barkhudaryan
Sergey Barkhudaryan
Sergey Vasilyevich Barkhudaryan was a Georgian Soviet composer and teacher. He was born on September 7, 1887, in Tiflis, and died on October...
Vadim Salmanov
Vadim Salmanov
Vadim Salmanov was a Soviet composer. He was born on 4 November 1912 in Saint Petersburg. His family line traced back to Bashkir murzas; in...

Connections

Latest connections added by this editor.

Mikhail Gnesin → Nikolai Narimanidze
Nikolai Narimanidze studied earlier with Mikhail Gnesin before graduating from the Moscow Conservatory in 1937 in Nikolai Myaskovsky's compo...
Mikhail Gnesin → Vadim Salmanov
Vadim Salmanov studied composition under Mikhail Gnesin at the Rimsky-Korsakov Leningrad Conservatory after private lessons with A. P. Gladk...
Mikhail Gnesin → Azon Fattakh
Mikhail Gnesin → Anushavan Ter-Gevondyan
Anushavan Ter-Ghevondyan was a pupil of Mikhail Gnesin. In his youth he took composition lessons from Gnesin.
Mikhail Gnesin → Yuri Slonov
Mikhail Gnesin → Sergey Skrebkov
Sergei Skrebkov graduated from the Gnessin Music School in 1928, studying composition under Mikhail Gnesin and Reinhold Gliere.