Links

• Photographic materials

  Formerly had a fine collection of photos, programmes, letters and cards. If anyone knows where the site has moved to (if that's what happened), or has downloaded the items, please get in touch.

• Medtner Song Texts

  Translations of some of Medtner's songs in English and other languages. See also Drinker's English texts.

• Gramophone

  Includes reviews in Gramophone magazine from 1983, accessible by subscribers.

• International Medtner Foundation

  US based organisation dedicated to the promotion of Medtner's music. Its main achievements have been the publication of the complete sonatas and Fairy Tales by Dover, and the hosting of the First International Medtner Festival in New York. The website has not been updated since 2005.

• Robert Rimm article

  Excerpt from the January/February 1999 issue of Piano & Keyboard magazine. Includes notes from a conversation with Marc-André Hamelin.

• Edna Iles and Medtner

• Joyce Hatto and Medtner

  Extract from a MusicWeb article by Ates Orga, quoting William Barrington-Coupe.

• Rob Barnett review

  Personal account of the author's discovery of Medtner through broadcasts and recordings.

• Philip Pullman article

  Article in Granta magazine published in 2001, available free for a limited period.

• Medtner e-group

  Yahoo group for sharing information and posting queries. Currently inactive. There is also a group on Facebook.

• Piano Society

  Web-based society featuring recordings by amateur and young professional pianists. Currently has eight recordings of Medtner.

Trivia

• 9329 Nikolaimedtner

  Asteroid named after Medtner.

• Sabu

  How the child actor Sabu was discovered as a real life elephant boy working for the Maharajah of Mysore. It seems that the Maharajah's brother, the father of Jayachamaraja Wodeyar Bahadur, discovered him. See Primrose Prince Passes.

Emil, Anna and Nikolai Medtner

Emil, Nikolai and Anna in apartment Emilija, Gnezdnikovsky lane, Moscow, 1907-8

Medtner, 1910