Origin
Igor Markevitch was born in Kiev, Ukraine, a part of Russian Empire, to an old family of Ukrainian Cossack starshyna ennobled in the 18th century. One of his ancestors was a Jewish merchant who converted to Eastern Orthodox Christianity in the 17th century. The family eventually produced many notable individuals.
A son of the pianist Boris Markevitch and Zoia Pokitonova, Markevitch moved with his family to Paris in 1914 and Switzerland in 1916. Alfred Cortot discovered his musical ability and advised him to go to Paris in 1926 for training as a composer and pianist at the École Normale, where he studied under Cortot and Nadia Boulanger.
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