Katuar, Georgy L'vovich

Katuar [Kuhtuár] (Catoire), Georgy L'vovich (4–15/27–1861, M.; 5–21–1926, same). Theorist, pianist, and comp. of French descent. Katuar studied piano with Klindworth, a professor at the M. Cons. from 1868–81, and graduated from the Mathematics Faculty of M. Univ. in 1884. In 1885 a strong attraction to music led him to visit Berlin, where he took lessons in composition with Tirsch and Rüfer and did further study of the piano with Klindworth, who had by then opened a piano school. Work with N…