Pavel Egorov

Pavel Grigoryevich Egorov (8 January 1948 – 15 August 2017) was a Russian pianist, professor of the Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg Conservatory, music researcher, and scholarly editor. He was named People's Artist of the Russian Federation in 2007. His mother, Praskovya Egorova, was a participant in the Second World War and played the garmon.

He studied at the special music school attached to the Leningrad Conservatory with Marina Wolf and graduated from the Moscow Conservatory named after P. I. Tchaikovsky in 1975. He was a pupil of the professors Tatyana Nikolayeva and Vera Gornostayeva. In 1974 he won the International Robert Schumann Competition in Zwickau, Germany. From 1976 he lived and worked in Saint Petersburg, and in 1980 he completed postgraduate study at the Rimsky-Korsakov Leningrad Conservatory.

Egorov was active internationally as a pianist and juror. He served on the juries of various piano competitions, including the Schumann Competition in Zwickau, the Tchaikovsky Youth Competition, Virtuosos 2000, and an international music competition in Singapore. From 1989 he chaired the jury of the annual International Piano Duo Competition Brother and Sister in Saint Petersburg. From 2002 he regularly gave solo concerts and master classes in Canada and the United States, and he also presented open lessons and master classes in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, and Taiwan. He worked as a guest professor at universities in Seoul and Daegu in South Korea.

As a researcher, Egorov was the scholarly editor of the complete edition of Robert Schumann's piano works in seven volumes. In 1989 he received the International Robert Schumann Prize and was elected an honorary member of the International Schumann Society in Düsseldorf. In 2001 he prepared the first Russian urtext edition of Johann Sebastian Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier. His work combined performance, scholarship, and editorial activity, with a particularly strong association with Schumann and Bach.

His repertoire was exceptionally broad and included music from many periods and genres. More than fifty recording programs preserve his performances, both solo and with orchestra or chamber partners, in works by Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Clara Wieck-Schumann, Chopin, Bruckner, Scriabin, Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, Sviridov, and Sergei Slonimsky. These recordings were issued by labels including Melodiya, Sony, Columbia, Intermusica, and Bomba-Piter.

Among his notable public events was a seven-hour concert marathon organized and led by Egorov on 8 June 2010, the 200th anniversary of Robert Schumann, in the Small Hall of the Saint Petersburg Philharmonia. He was also a member of the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Society and, from 2007, a member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences through its Saint Petersburg branch for education and scientific development. In 2003 he was awarded the badge For Merits to Polish Culture.

Egorov died on 15 August 2017 after a long illness. He was buried on 19 August at the Volkovo Orthodox Cemetery in Saint Petersburg. His legacy is preserved through his performances, recordings, editorial work, and his long association with Saint Petersburg's musical life.

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