Leokadiya Kashperova
Biography, 'Memoirs' and 'Recollections of Anton Rubinstein'

This Element is the first-ever biography of Leokadiya Kashperova along with her memoirs.

Graham Griffiths (Author)

9781009097239, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 2 March 2023

82 pages
22.7 x 15.1 x 0.5 cm, 0.136 kg

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.

1. Biography: a life in music
2. The memoirs of Leokadiya Kashperova (1929)
3. Leokadiya Kashperova's recollections of Anton Rubinstein (1929)
4. Catalogue of compositions
5. Bibliography and further reading.

Subject Areas: Music [AV]