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Pachulski

Henryk Pachulski (1859–1921) was a Polish-born pianist, composer, and teacher who trained under Moniuszko in Warsaw before entering the Moscow Conservatory, where he spent thirty years as professor of piano. He made four-hand piano transcriptions of Tchaikovsky's orchestral works and dedicated his Piano Sonata No. 2 to Rachmaninoff, placing him at the centre of Moscow's musical world. His brother Władysław had married a daughter of Nadezhda von Meck, Tchaikovsky's patroness, and is the prime suspect in the mysterious collapse of von Meck's relationship with the composer in 1890. Henryk himself never returned to Poland.

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