Théodore Akimenko - Piano Sonata No.2 “Fantasia“ (1913)

Pavlo lysyi - Piano 00:00 - Andante 11:09 - Larghetto Théodore Akimenko (Fedir Yakymenko) (1876-1945) was a Ukrainian Composer. From 1886 to 1895 he studied piano with the Russian composer and pianist Mili Balakirev. In 1900 he graduated from the St. Petersburg Conservatory (in the composition class of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Anatoly Liadov). In 1914 he was invited to teach composition and music theory at the St. Petersburg Conservatory (he worked until 1923). Among his students is the outstanding composer of the twentieth century Igor Stravinsky. After a short stay in Kharkiv from 1924 he worked for some time as a professor of music at the Ukrainian Higher Pedagogical Institute. Among his students were Zinova Lysko, Mykola Kolessa and others. From 1928 he lived in France (Nice, Paris), where he died. His younger brother was the composer Yakiv Stepovy. Yakymenko is one of the prominent representatives of the neo-romantic trend in the music of the twentieth century