Background
Charles Naginski was the son of Russian Jewish parents. His father, who was his first piano teacher, recognized his talent for music and composition at a very early age.
Charles Naginski was the son of Russian Jewish parents. His father, who was his first piano teacher, recognized his talent for music and composition at a very early age.
He also studied with Roger Sessions.
From 1928 to 1933 Naginski held a fellowship at the Juilliard Graduate School as a pupil of Rubin Goldmark. Other students there at the time included composers Paul Nordoff, Sergius Kagen, Celius Dougherty, and Vittorio Giannini. In the summer of 1940 he went to the Tanglewood institute to study with Paul Hindemith.
He died by drowning in Lenox, Massachusetts, on August 4, 1940.