What is Nikolai Kapustin?
{{Wikify||reason=It does not have enough links to other articles.|date=January 2021}} '''Nikolai Girshevich Kapustin''' ([[Russian language|Russian]]: Никола́й Ги́ршевич Капу́стин; November 22, 1937 &ndash; July 2, 2020) was a Ukrainian composer and pianist. He was born in Horlivka, [[Ukrainian SSR]]. His works are 20 [[piano sonata]]s, six [[piano concerto|piano concerti]], other instrumental concert, sets of piano variations, and concert studies. Kapustin died on July 2, 2020 in [[Moscow]] at the age of 82.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.nikolai-kapustin.info/index.html |title=We Are Sad to Announche The Passing of Nikolai Kapustin |access-date=2020-07-04 |archive-date=2020-07-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200704074310/https://www.nikolai-kapustin.info/index.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> ==Life== At the age of seven, he learned piano with Professor Avreliana Hryhorovycha Rubbakha (1895—1975), a student of Felix Blumenfeld, who also taught Symona Barera and Volodymyra Horovytsya. Rubbakha was the first serious teacher for Kapustin, and together they worked hard for 11 years. While he was learning, Kapustin fully went through the path of becoming a pianist of the classical type, playing works by [[Johann Sebastian Bach|Bach]], Clementi, Scarletti, [[Franz Liszt|Liszt]], [[Ludwig van Beethoven|Beethoven]], and passing various scales, arpeggios, etc. on technical tests. When he was 18 years old he went into the Moscow Conservatory on piano in the class of Holʹdenveyzera Oleksandra Borysovycha. Kapustin remembered that the relationship with such a famous person affected him and his development as a pianist. Borysovycha was 82 years old at the time, and he could not to provide adequate technical teaching to his student. During the work, the teacher remembered the past a lot, sharing interesting facts and his thoughts on composers. Borysovycha was touched at how full of motion the music of Mykoly Hirshovycha was, what he could do with the piano, deeply respected and loved his student. For some t