Talk:Tatiana Nikolayeva

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• Where was she born?

--Sheynhertz_געשׁ״ך 04:03, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

Ah, ok- here. My copy of Oxford Concise Dictionary - 1994, update 2004 -give Bezhitsa for her birthplace. So does another source or two, adding Bryansk district- I think that it's in the district but am not sure, but hope to be corrected... Schissel | Sound the Note! 17:59, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Redirect

(Not sure about the previous question, but will try to look into it.) The redirect page Tatiana Nikolaeva I created should probably have been a disamb. instead, since there are several- at least very possibly noteworthy- authors in their fields e.g. Tatiana Mikhailova Nikolaeva, an author on language apparently (her book Funktsii chastits v vyskazyvanii : na materiale slavianskikh iazykov (have removed some important diacritic letters, I regret) is described in catalogue.bl.uk as being about Slavic language particles); Tatyana Vasilevna Nikolaeva, with several books (Babelfish plus some guessing on my part translates her 1964 book Произведения русского прикладного искусства с надписями XV-первой четверти XVI в. to approximately Works of Russian Engineering from the first fourth of the 15th to the the 16th Century), and several others, none that I can find that are musicians but which may be notable in their own fields, again. May be worth looking into... Schissel | Sound the Note! 17:24, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Four issues

This says she died “whilst playing the Shostakovich Preludes and Fugues at a public concert in San Francisco on 13 November 1993”. This suggests she dropped dead on stage, in mid-performance. Our article says she died “shortly after” performing the Ps & Fs. That link and this one both say her death occurred on 13 November, not 22 November, as we currently have it. One possibility is that she played the Ps & Fs on 13 November, became ill during or shortly afterwards the performance, but did not actually die till 9 days later.

So there are 4 issues to be clarified:

• What was the date of the performance, and was this the same date as her death?
• Did she complete the performance or not?
• Did she die on stage, or while being taken to a hospital, or at the hospital, or somewhere else?
• Did her death occur on 13 November or 22 November 1993? -- JackofOz (talk) 01:06, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

I should have done this before I asked. A quick search told me all I wanted to know. This says: "Tatiana Nikolayeva was stricken with a cerebral hemorrhage while playing the Shostakovich Preludes and Fugues at a public concert in San Francisco on Novevember 13, 1993: she died 9 days later". So the time line seems to be:

• she was taken ill while playing the Shostakovich on 13 November, and did not complete the performance
• she died 9 days later, on 22 November.

I'll make the necessary changes to the article. -- JackofOz (talk) 01:12, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Mistress of Shostakovich?

Paul Keating, in his recent eulogy to the Australian pianist Geoffrey Tozer, described Nikolayeva as "a mistress of Shostakovich". I'd never heard this, but it adds an interesting filter to our knowledge of her if it's true. Is this corroborated anywhere? -- JackofOz (talk) 07:15, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

I may be being naive, but I think he just meant it in the sense of "a very good player of". I've never heard the other meaning suggested before. But I do like the thought that Paul Keating may have been spending his free time in Moscow archives tracking down love letters between the two of them. :) Henry^Flower 19:33, 27 October 2009 (UTC)