Laskovsky, Ivan Fyodorovich

Laskovsky [Lasskóffsky], Ivan Fyodorovich (1799, P.; 1855, same). Pianist and comp. Was a military officer and later a civil servant. Studied pf with Field and comp. with Hunke and was a friend of Dargomyzhsky, Glinka, Odoyevsky, and Mikhail Viel'gorsky . In P. salons often perf. his own pf works, some of which display the infl. of Chopin, Mendelssohn, Schubert, Schumann, and Weber, and anticipate comp. by Balakirev and P. Chaikovsky. Most of Laskovsky's pf music was edited and publ…