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<p>Created page with &quot;{{picture|file=Kamenskaya_Mariya.jpg|caption=&#039;&#039;&#039;Mariya Kamenskaya&#039;&#039;&#039; (1854-1925), in the role of Lyubov in &#039;&#039;<a href="/pages/Mazepa" title="Mazepa">Mazepa</a>&#039;&#039;.}} Russian singer (mezzo-soprano) (b. 19/31 August 1854 in <a href="/pages/Saint_Petersburg" title="Saint Petersburg">Saint Petersburg</a>; d. 1925 in Helsinki), born &#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;Mariya Danilovna Valter&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039; (Мария Даниловна Вальтер), known on stage as &#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;Mariya Danilovna Kamenskaya&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039; (Мария Даниловна Каменская). Kamenskaya was a native of <a href="/pages/Saint_Petersburg" title="Saint Petersburg">Saint Petersburg</a>, where...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{picture|file=Kamenskaya_Mariya.jpg|caption=&#039;&#039;&#039;Mariya Kamenskaya&#039;&#039;&#039; (1854-1925), in the role of Lyubov in &#039;&#039;[[Mazepa]]&#039;&#039;.}}<br /> Russian singer (mezzo-soprano) (b. 19/31 August 1854 in [[Saint Petersburg]]; d. 1925 in Helsinki), born &#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;Mariya Danilovna Valter&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039; (Мария Даниловна Вальтер), known on stage as &#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;Mariya Danilovna Kamenskaya&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039; (Мария Даниловна Каменская).<br /> <br /> Kamenskaya was a native of [[Saint Petersburg]], where she graduated from Henriette Nissen-Saloman&#039;s conservatory classes, making her stage debut with the Imperial Theatres in 1874, as Vanya in [[Glinka]]&#039;s &#039;&#039;A Life for the Tsar&#039;&#039;. She premiered the roles of Joan of Arc in Tchaikovsky&#039;s opera &#039;&#039;[[The Maid of Orleans]]&#039;&#039; (1881) and Marthe in &#039;&#039;[[Iolanta]]&#039;&#039; (1892). <br /> <br /> For the role of Joan, Tchaikovsky was obliged to make several transpositions of the soprano part to suit Kamenskaya&#039;s lower range, and her stubborn behaviour caused him much frustration &lt;ref name=&quot;note1&quot;/&gt;.<br /> <br /> ==Dedications==<br /> In 1875, Tchaikovsky dedicated &#039;&#039;Mignon&#039;s Song&#039;&#039; — No. 3 of the [[Six Romances, Op. 25]] — to Mariya Kamenskaya.<br /> <br /> ==Correspondence with Tchaikovsky==<br /> No letters from Tchaikovsky to Mariya Kamenskaya are known, but four letters from Kamenskaya to the composer, dating from 1882 and 1886, are preserved in the {{RUS-KLč}} at [[Klin]] (a{{sup|4}}, Nos. 1385–1388).<br /> <br /> ==External Links==<br /> * [[wikipedia:ru:Каменская,_Мария_Даниловна|Wikipedia]] (Russian)<br /> <br /> ==Notes and References==<br /> &lt;references&gt;<br /> &lt;ref name=&quot;note1&quot;&gt;See, for example, [[Letter 1643]] to [[Eduard Nápravník]], 11/23 December 1880, and [[Letter 1926]] to [[Pyotr Jurgenson]], 4/16 January 1882.&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> &lt;/references&gt;<br /> <br /> [[Category:People|Kamenskaya, Mariya]]<br /> [[Category:Dedicatees|Kamenskaya, Mariya]]<br /> [[Category:Singers|Kamenskaya, Mariya]]<br /> [[Category:Correspondents|Kamenskaya, Mariya]]<br /> __NOTOC__</div>

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