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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      February 2023
      March 2023
      ISBN:
      9781009093446
      9781009097239
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009093446
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      Weight & Pages:
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.136kg, 80 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Music, Music, Music: General Interest
      Series:
      Elements in Women in Music
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    Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Music, Music, Music: General Interest
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    Elements in Women in Music
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    Leokadiya Kashperova's romantic compositions were highly regarded by Rimsky-Korsakov, César Cui, and by Balakirev whose works she premiered and recorded. In 1907, Kashperova performed her own compositions to critical acclaim in Leipzig, Berlin and London. After the 1917 Revolution following her death in 1940, her name joined her fine music in historical anonymity and oblivion. This Element is the result of twenty years' research culminating in eight study-visits by the author to St Petersburg, Moscow and the Yaroslavl/Kostroma region. The Biography (section 1) is the first ever written about this composer. Kashperova's Memoirs (section 2) and her Recollections of Anton Rubinstein (section 3) are made available in translation for the first time. Together with a new edition of her compositions (Boosey & Hawkes, London) this Element aims to support the restoration of Kashperova to her rightful place in music history as Russia's foremost female composer of the early twentieth century.

    References

    Bibliography and Further Reading

    Reference

    Boosey & Hawkes, ‘Kashperova Edition’ (2022), www.boosey.com/composer/Leokadiya+Kashperova.
    Cohen, Aaron I. (ed.), International Encyclopedia of Women Composers, 2nd ed., revised and enlarged (New York: Books & Music USA Inc., 1987).
    Hoffmann, Freia, ‘Kaschperowa, Kašperova, Kashperov(a), Kaschperow, Kaschpérow, (Elikonida) Leokadia, Leocadi, Léocadie, Aleksandrowna, verh. Kaschperowa-Andropowa’, Europaȉsche Instrumentalistinnen-Lexikon, Sophie Drinker Institute (2018), www.sophie-drinker-institut.de/kaschperowa-leokadia.
    Kashperova, Leokadiya A., Воспоминания [Memoirs], ed. Fesenkova, N. G., in Музыкальное наследство [Musical Legacy], vol. 2, p. 2, (Moscow: Muzyka, 1968), p. 135.
    Sadie, Julie Ann and Samuel, Rhian (eds.), The Norton/Grove Dictionary of Women Composers (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1995).
    Энциклопедии, Словари, Справочники, Entsiklopedii, Slovari, Spravochniki. Keldish, Y. V. (ed.) (Moscow: Izdatel’stvo ‘Sovetskaya Entsiklopediya’, 1974).

    Archives

    Central State Historical Archive of St Petersburg. Archive 2, Inventory 1, File 18996; Archive 7, Inventory 2, File 1793.
    The Musical Museum, Brentford (London): Welte-Mignon piano rolls.
    Russian National Library, St Petersburg; Fontanka Music Library; Manuscripts Department/Balakirev Archive; Kashperova materials.
    Russian National Museum of Music (Glinka Consortium of Musical Culture), Moscow. Archive 345.

    Journals/Music Review Sections

    Mährisches Tagblatt (St Petersburg), 20 November 1895.
    The Sunday Times (London), 23 June 1907.
    The Times (London), 7 October / 23 October 1907.
    Musikalischen Wochenblatts (Leipzig), 17 October 1907.
    The Musical Standard (London), 2 November 1907.
    The Violin Times (London), December 1907.
    Langrish, Kate and Griffiths, Graham, ‘Forgotten Female Composers’, Programme book, LSO St Luke’s (London), 8 March 2018.
    Walter, Viktor, ‘A Clavierabend with L. A. Kashperova’, Russian Musical Gazette, vol. 16 (1912).

    Online Resources

    ‘Andropov, Sergei Vasilievich’, Geni, www.geni.com.
    Arts & Humanities Research Council, ‘Forgotten Women: International Women’s Day in Russia 1917’, (interview with Graham Griffiths; 8 March 2017), www.ahrc.ac.uk/research/readwatchlisten/features/kashperova.
    Di Laccio, Gabriella (ed.), DONNE – Women in Music, www.facebook.com/donneuk.
    Griffiths, Graham, ‘Getting to Know Leokadiya Kashperova’, Drama Musica, YouTube video (8 June 2018), www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLmN_Y62c-g.
    Griffiths, Graham, ‘Dr Graham Griffiths in Search of Leokadiya Kashperova’, Drama Musica, YouTube video (8 June 2018), www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOVjjrAnhDg.
    Grover, Ed, ‘Forgotten Composer’s Symphony Performed for First Time in 100 Years Thanks to City Researcher’: www.city.ac.uk/news/2018/march/leokadiya-kashperova-bbc-radio-3-forgotten-female-composers.

    Books and Articles

    Bernhardt, G. B. and Yampolsky, I. M., Кто писпл о музыке [Who Wrote about Music] (Leningrad: All Union Publishers Sovetskiy Kompozitor, 1974).
    Braginskaya, Natalia (ed.), Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908): The St Petersburg Conservatory – Documents and Materials, vol. 3 (St Petersburg: Blagovest, 2019).
    Cui, César. A., Изьранные письма [Selected Letters], ed. I. L. Gusin (Leningrad: State Music Publishers, 1955).
    Cui, César. A., Изьранные статьи об исполнителях [Selected Concert Reviews] (Moscow: State Music Publishers, 1957).
    Droucker, Sandra, Erinnerungen an Anton Rubinstein: Bemerkungen, Andeutungen and Besprechungen in seinen Klassen in St-Petersburger Konservatorium [Memories of Anton Rubinstein: Observations, Recommendations and Reviews of His Teaching at the St Petersburg Conservatoire] (Leipzig: B. Senff, 1904).
    Dyachkova, L. S. and Yarustovsky, Boris (eds.), I. F. Stravinskiy: stat’i i material’I [I. F. Stravinsky: Articles and Documents] (Moscow: Sovetskiy Kompozitor, 1973).
    Griffiths, Graham, ‘Leokadiya Kashperova and Stravinsky: the Making of a Concert Pianist’, in Griffiths, Graham (ed.), Stravinsky in Context (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021), pp. 24–33
    Griffiths, Graham, Stravinsky’s Piano: Genesis of a Musical Language (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013).
    Horgan, Paul, Encounters with Stravinsky (Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1989).
    Hunnius, Monika, Mein Weg zur Kunst [My Path to Art] (Hamburg: Verlag tradition-GmbH, 1925).
    Korabelnikova, Ludmila, Alexander Tcherepnin: The Saga of a Russian Emigré Composer (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008).
    Kuzina, Olga, ‘Unknown Tchaikovsky manuscripts in the Odoyevsky Archive’, in Almanac, no. 2, ed. Rakhmanova, M. P. (Moscow: Glinka State Consortium of Musical Culture, 2003).
    McArthur, Alexander, Anton Rubinstein: A Biographical Sketch (Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1889).
    McArthur, Alexander, Rubinstein: The Man and the Music (n.p., 1895).
    Novikov, V. I., Ленин и деятельность искровских групп в России (1900–1903) [Lenin and the Activities of the Iskra Groups in Russia (1900–1903)] (Moscow: Thought Press, 1984).
    Rittermann, Janet, ‘On Teaching Performance’ in Rink, John (ed.), Musical Performance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), pp. 75–88.
    Rubinstein, Anton G., Музыка и ее представатели: Разговорь о музыке [Music and Its Representatives: A Musical Conversation] (St Petersburg: Artists Union Press, 2005 [1891]).
    Schonberg, Harold C., The Great Pianists (London: Victor Gollancz, 1964).
    Stravinsky, Igor, An Autobiography (1903–1934) (London: Marion Boyars, 1990).
    Stravinsky, Igor and Craft, Robert, Memories and Commentaries (London: Faber and Faber, 2002 [1960]).
    Taruskin, Richard, Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions. A Biography of the Works Through Mavra, vol. 1 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996).
    Varunts, Viktor, I. F. Stravinsky: Perepiska s russkimi korrespondentami – Materialy k biographii [I. F. Stravinsky: Russian Correspondence – Documents and Biographies], vol. 1 (Moscow: Sovetskiy Kompozitor, 1988 [1977])
    Walsh, Stephen, Stravinsky: A Creative Spring: Russia and France 1882–1934 (London: Pimlico, 2002).
    Zaytseva, Tatyana A. (ed.), Наше святое ремесло: памяти В.В. Нильсена, 1910–98 [Our Hallowed Craft: A Memorial to V. V. Nilsen, 1910–98] (St Petersburg: Sudarynia Press, 2004).

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