Sergei Lyapunov piano tutorials.

About Lyapunov.

Sergei Lyapunov was born in Yaroslavl in 1859 and grew up in Nizhny Novgorod. He entered the Moscow Conservatory in 1878 on Nikolai Rubinstein’s recommendation, studied piano with the Liszt pupil Karl Klindworth and composition with Sergei Taneyev, and graduated with honours in 1883. That same year he met Mily Balakirev, moved to St Petersburg in 1885 and became the most important member of Balakirev’s later circle.

In the 1890s he worked at the Imperial Chapel in St Petersburg and collected Russian folk songs for the Imperial Geographical Society, songs he then used in his own music. His main piano work is the twelve Transcendental Etudes Op. 11, written in memory of Liszt in the twelve keys Liszt’s own set left out. He later taught at the St Petersburg Conservatory, emigrated to Paris in 1923, and died there the following year.