Lev Oborin - Chopin: Etude in A flat ajor No.1

At the age of eight Oborin entered the Gnessin School where he studied with Elena Gnesina. After graduating, he joined the class of Konstantin Igumnov at the Moscow Conservatory where he also studied composition with Nikolai Myaskovsky, Gyorgy Conus and Gyorgy Catoire. At the Conservatory he also studied conducting with Konstantin Saradzhev, and later with Bruno Walter and Hermann Abendroth. At the age of nineteen and while still a post-graduate student of Igumnov, Oborin won first prize at the first Intern