Sergei Bortkiewicz - 12 Études Nouvelles Op. 29, No. 3 'La Brune'

Sergei Bortkiewicz was a Ukrainian Romantic composer and pianist of Polish ancestry. Sergei Eduardovich Bortkiewicz was born in Kharkiv, Russian Empire on 28 February 1877 in a Polish noble family and spent most of his childhood on the family estate of Artemivka, near Kharkiv. Bortkiewicz received his musical training from Anatoly Lyadov and Karl von Arek at the Imperial Conservatory of Music in Saint Petersburg. pf) MIDI