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Nikolai BernardNikolai Metveevich Bernard (Николай Матвеевич Бернард), was a Russian music publisher, born in 1844. The son of the pianist and composer, Matvey Ivanovich Bernard (1794-1871), Nikolai inherited his father's music publishing business in Saint Petersburg. As the publisher of the musical magazine Nouvelliste, Bernard commissioned Tchaikovsky to write the Two Songs (1873), Two Songs (1875), and the piano cycle The Seasons (1875-76), all of which received their first publications in Nouvelliste. Bernard's publishing house was taken over by Jurgenson in 1885. Nikolai Bernard died in 1905. |