Ernest Pingoud

[1] He also took private lessons with Alexander Siloti, who had come to know the family when he became a neighbour of their summer residence at Tikkala Manor near Viipuri on the Karelian Isthmus.

[2] Perhaps on his father's instructions, Pingoud also studied non-musical subjects, including philosophy and literature, as well as mining and metallurgy, at Jena, Munich, Bonn and Berlin.

[4] Pingoud's preferred mode of musical expression was orchestral, especially in symphonic poems following the example of Scriabin[1] His three piano concertos seem to look more to the models of Franz Liszt and Sergei Rachmaninoff.

[1] Although the concision of his Fünf Sonette has been compared to early works of the Second Viennese School, his musical language remained predominantly tonal.

[3] A CD containing some of Pingoud's symphonic poems has been recorded for Ondine by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sakari Oramo.