Nina Dorliak Dorliak's career began in 1935 as a recitalist of
art songs, accompanied by pianists such as
Konstantin Igumnov,
Alexander Goldenweiser,
Maria Yudina, and
Maria Grinberg. In 1947, she became a professor at the Moscow Conservatory. Among her best-known students were
Galina Pisarenko,
Erik Kurmangaliev, and
Alla Ablaberdyeva. Dorliak gave many concerts in Russia and abroad, mainly in the art song repertoire, with a focus on Italian composers such as
Alessandro Scarlatti, French composers such as
Claude Debussy,
Maurice Ravel and
Francis Poulenc, and Russian composers such as
Mikhail Glinka,
Modest Mussorgsky and
Sergei Rachmaninoff. They performed together in concert and made recordings. but Michel Krielaars writes that Richter "and Dorliak never shared a bed and never married", and that Richter was gay and Dorliak a lesbian. She accompanied Richter on tours throughout his career for more than fifty years, supporting him until his last illness. He died on 1 August 1997. She died soon afterwards on 17 May 1998 at the age of 89. Dorliak's legacy includes numerous recordings, some of them as a duo with Richter, with a repertoire that includes Schumann, Prokofiev, and Mussorgsky. == Notes ==