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{{picture|file=Klimentova-Muromtseva_Mariya.jpg|caption='''Mariya Klimentova-Muromtseva''' (1857-1946), in an 1883 portrait by Ilya Repin''}}
{{picture|file=Kondratyev_Gennady.jpg|caption='''Gennady Kondratyev''' (1834–1905)}}
Russian soprano and singing teacher (b. 4/16 January 1857 in Kursk; d. 25 January 1946 in [[Paris]]), born '''''Mariya Nikolayevna Klimentova''''' (Мария Николаевна Климентова), and known after her marriage as '''''Mariya Nikolayevna Klimentova-Muromtseva''''' (Мария Николаевна Климентова-Муромцева), or '''''Maria Mouromtseva'''''.
Russian baritone (b. 5/17 February 1834; d. 1905), born '''''Gennady Petrovich Kondratyev''''' (Геннадий Петрович Кондратьев).


After attending school in Voronezh, Mariya studied singing at the [[Moscow]] Conservatory, where she was also a student in Tchaikovsky's classes on music theory. In 1880, she graduated and made her debut at the Bolshoi Theatre in [[Moscow]] in the role of Margaret in [[Gounod]]'s ''Faust''. She remained at the Bolshoi for eight years, and gained a high reputation as a coloratura soprano. During the 1880s she also performed at the Mariinsky Theatre in [[Saint Petersburg]], and toured at the National Theatre in [[Prague]]. In 1891 she established a school for singers in [[Moscow]].
As a youth Kondratyev was in the Aleksandrinsky Academy and the [[Pavlovsk]] Military School, where he sang in the chorus, learned to play the violin and cello, and conducted the in-house orchestra. He left military school in 1856, and went to Italy to train as a singer in [[Milan]], later touring in [[Florence]]. He began his stage career in [[Tiflis]] in 1863, and made his debut in the Russian Opera in [[Saint Petersburg]] two years later in [[Glinka]]'s ''Ruslan and Lyudmila''. From 1872 until 1900 he was the chief director of the Imperial Theatres in [[Saint Petersburg]], and in his capacity as director he oversaw the premiere of Tchaikovsky's opera '' [[The Queen of Spades]]'' at the Mariinsky Theatre in 1890.
 
Mariya was the first performer of the roles of Tatyana in ''[[Yevgeny Onegin]]'' in the conservatory students' production of 1879, and of Oksana in '' [[Cherevichki]]'' at the Bolshoi in 1887, and earned much praise from Tchaikovsky.


==Correspondence with Tchaikovsky==
==Correspondence with Tchaikovsky==
13 letters from Tchaikovsky to Mariya Klimentova-Muromtseva have survived, dating from 1885 to 1893, of which those highlighted in bold have been translated into English on this website:
One letter from Tchaikovsky to Gennady Kondratyev has survived, dating from 1886, and has been translated into English on this website:
* '''[[Letter 2808a]]''' – 16/28 November 1885 (?), from [[Moscow]]
* '''[[Letter 3100]]''' – 14/26 November 1886, from [[Maydanovo]].
* '''[[Letter 3113a]]''' – 27 November/9 December 1886, from [[Moscow]]
* '''[[Letter 3161]]''' – 26 January/7 February 1887, from [[Moscow]]
* [[Letter 3177a]] – 10/22 February 1887, from [[Maydanovo]]
* '''[[Letter 3414a]]''' – 21 November/3 December 1887, from [[Moscow]]
* '''[[Letter 3770]]''' – 13/25 January 1889, from [[Frolovskoye]]
* '''[[Letter 3876]]''' – 13/25 June 1889, from [[Frolovskoye]]
* '''[[Letter 3883]]''' – 19 June/1 July 1889, from [[Frolovskoye]]
* '''[[Letter 4029]]''' – 10/22 February 1890, from [[Florence]]
* '''[[Letter 4041]]''' – 19 February/3 March 1890, from [[Florence]]
* '''[[Letter 4537]]''' – 8/20 November 1891, from [[Moscow]]
* '''[[Letter 4559]]''' – 19 November/1 December 1891, from [[Maydanovo]]
* '''[[Letter 4885]]''' – 7/19 March 1893, from [[Moscow]]


11 letters from Mariya Klimentova-Muromtseva to the composer, dating from around 1887 to 1891, are preserved in the {{RUS-KLč}} at [[Klin]] (a{{sup|4}}, Nos. 1475–1485).
5 letters from Kondratyev to the composer, dating from 1884 to 1892, are preserved in the {{RUS-KLč}} at [[Klin]] (a{{sup|4}}, Nos. 1534–1538).


==Bibliography==
==Bibliography==
* {{bib|2010/3}} (2010)
* {{bib|1940/113}} (1940)


==External Links==
==External Links===
* [[wikipedia:ru:Климентова-Муромцева,_Мария_Николаевна|Wikipedia]] (Russian)
* [[wikipedia:ru:Кондратьев,_Геннадий_Петрович|Wikipedia]] (Russian)
* {{viaf|101516209}}


[[Category:People|Klimentova-Muromtseva, Mariya]]
[[Category:People|Kondratyev, Gennady]]
[[Category:Correspondents|Klimentova-Muromtseva, Mariya]]
[[Category:Correspondents|Kondratyev, Gennady]]
[[Category:Singers|Klimentova-Muromtseva, Mariya]]
[[Category:Singers|Kondratyev, Gennady]]

Latest revision as of 15:08, 27 August 2023

Gennady Kondratyev (1834–1905)

Russian baritone (b. 5/17 February 1834; d. 1905), born Gennady Petrovich Kondratyev (Геннадий Петрович Кондратьев).

As a youth Kondratyev was in the Aleksandrinsky Academy and the Pavlovsk Military School, where he sang in the chorus, learned to play the violin and cello, and conducted the in-house orchestra. He left military school in 1856, and went to Italy to train as a singer in Milan, later touring in Florence. He began his stage career in Tiflis in 1863, and made his debut in the Russian Opera in Saint Petersburg two years later in Glinka's Ruslan and Lyudmila. From 1872 until 1900 he was the chief director of the Imperial Theatres in Saint Petersburg, and in his capacity as director he oversaw the premiere of Tchaikovsky's opera The Queen of Spades at the Mariinsky Theatre in 1890.

Correspondence with Tchaikovsky

One letter from Tchaikovsky to Gennady Kondratyev has survived, dating from 1886, and has been translated into English on this website:

5 letters from Kondratyev to the composer, dating from 1884 to 1892, are preserved in the Tchaikovsky State Memorial Musical Museum-Reserve at Klin (a4, Nos. 1534–1538).

Bibliography

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