An Introduction to the Life, Art, and Legacy of Nikolai Medtner Nikolai Karlovich Medtner (1880–1951), one of the last great composer-pianists of the Russian Romantic tradition. "Medtner is the greatest composer of our time." — Sergei Rachmaninoff Imagine attending a concert in the early twentieth century where one of the era's greatest composers tells you that the finest living composer is not himself, nor Scriabin, nor Debussy, nor Stravinsky, but a quiet, introspective pia