Sergei Tarnowsky

Safonov was so impressed that he arranged for Tarnowsky to appear with the Berlin Philharmonic in a program of three works for piano and orchestra - concertos by Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff, and a Fantasy by Arensky.

Tarnowsky married Glazunov's adopted daughter Elena in Leningrad on February 18, 1928, and they moved to Paris.

In 1933, he joined the DePaul University School of Music in Chicago and appeared in concert with artists such as Nathan Milstein, William Primrose, Raya Garbousova and Maria Kurenko.

[2] In 1938, Tarnowsky became a naturalized United States citizen with the help of his colleague at DePaul University School of Music, Richard Czerwonky, who signed as a witness on the paperwork.

Tarnowsky later married one of his pupils, Maxine Matlavish,[2] and they settled in California, where from the 1940s until his death he was one of the most sought-after piano teachers.