Nikolai Vygodsky
Nikolai Vygodsky (1900–1939) was a Soviet composer, music educator, musicologist, pianist, and organist. He was born in St. Petersburg on April 3, 1900, and died in Vladimir on November 26, 1939.
He graduated from the Tbilisi Conservatory in 1920, studying piano with I. S. Aizberg. In 1924, he completed the performing arts faculty’s organ program under A. F. Goedicke. He later studied in the music research division of the Moscow Conservatory.
Vygodsky taught at the Moscow Conservatory from 1924 and became an associate professor in 1932. He taught piano to students in faculties other than piano and headed the educational literature editorial department at the Muzgiz publishing house. He was also known as an accomplished pianist and organist.
His works included musical compositions, piano transcriptions of organ pieces, organ arrangements of orchestral works by Vasily Bely and Boris Shekhter, and articles on music. His publications included a four-part Methodical Anthology for the General Piano Course, published in Moscow in 1935.