Nikolay Kashkin

Nikolay Dmitriyevich Kashkin (; 15 March 1920) was a Russian music critic as well as a professor of piano and music theory at the Moscow Conservatory for 33 years (1866–96 and 1905–08).

He contributed music criticism primarily to the Russian Register and the Moscow Register, sometimes under the pseudonym "Nikolai Dmitriev."

As a critic, Kashkin would do valuable service in the promotion of Tchaikovsky's music. Beginning with Tchaikovsky's unfinished opera The Voyevoda which was half-destroyed by the composer and attemptively reconstructed starting in the 1930s, Kashkin was a strong advocate for Tchaikovsky's work. He was an early support of Tchaikovsky's penultimate opera, The Queen of Spades, arguing it would become a leading name in Russian operatic repertoire.

Kashkin published his recollections of Pyotr Tchaikovsky three years after the composer's death in 1893.

Works

Essays

1897: "Essay on the history of Russian music" 1897: "Opera stage of the Moscow Imperial Theater"

Monograph

1896: "Memoirs" of Tchaikovsky