Nikolay Peyko

Nikolay Ivanovich Peyko or Peiko (Николай Иванович Пейко) (Moscow, 1916 - Moscow, 1995) was a Russian composer and professor of composition.^[1]

Peyko studied composition at Moscow Conservatory under Nikolay Myaskovsky, graduating in 1940, then working in a military hospital during the Second World War and teaching at the Moscow Conservatory 1942-1949. From 1959 till retirement Peyko was professor of composition at the Gnessin State Musical College where his students included Sofia Gubaidulina.

Works

• Symphonic suite “From the Legends of Yakutia” (1940)
• Dramatic Overture (1941)
• First Symphony (1946)
• Moldavian suite for orchestra (1950)
• Seven pieces on folklore themes (1951)
• Fantasy on Finnish themes (1953)
• Oratorio/opera Tsar Ivan’s Night (1968) after the text of A. K. Tolstoy.
• Ballet Joanne d’Arc after Schiller

Selected recordings

• Complete Piano Music. Toccata Classics (TOCC 0104 and 0105)

References

1. ^ Richard Taruskin On Russian music p402 2009

Persondata
Name	Peyko, Nikolay
Alternative names
Short description	Russian composer and professor of composition
Date of birth	1916
Place of birth	Moscow, Russia
Date of death	1995
Place of death	Moscow, Russia