According to the memoirs of his friends-musicians, D.M. Tsyganov was an outstanding performer of many violin concertos, sonatas, pieces of Russian and foreign composers, the first performer and ardent propagandist of many works by Soviet authors. Playing in the quartet Dmitry became the first performer of the majority of their works. He has also performed great services in pedagogical activity, which was connected with the Moscow Conservatory the whole life. Among his students we can name many violinists, who later successfully performed at various concert world stages (V. Malinin, A. Melnikov, R. Sobolewski, R. Nodel, Fedotov, Z. Shihmurzaeva and others).

My personal acquaintance with Dmitri Tsyganov took place in 1949, when I was a pupil of Central Music School. I still remember that I saw a small smiling friendly person who asked me (boy!) with interest about my purposes in life, in music, about the goals and problems.

It immediately amazed me, although I realized everything much later, that D.M. Tsyganov saw his main task in free creative development of artistic and musical individuality of every student. He had the rare gift of a teacher to discover student’s faculties and to develop them. I remember that Dmitry loved the presence of the majority of his students on the lessons. Such creative communication of all students contributed a lot to our perfection and musical growth.

The whole article read in Musician I 2010.

Translated by Natalia Kornilova