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Russian pianist and teacher (b. 1856; d. 27 December 1930 in Tomsk), born '''''Aleksandra Yakovlevna Levenson''''' (Александра Яковлевна Левенсон); known after marriage as '''''Anna Yakovlevna Aleksandrova-Levenson''''' (Анна Яковлевна Александрова-Левенсон).
Russian pianist and teacher (b. 1856; d. 27 December 1930 in Tomsk), born '''''Aleksandra Yakovlevna Levenson''''' (Александра Яковлевна Левенсон); known after marriage as '''''Anna Yakovlevna Aleksandrova-Levenson''''' (Анна Яковлевна Александрова-Левенсон).


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* [[Letter 1827]] – 6/18 August 1881, from [[Kamenka]]  
* [[Letter 1827]] – 6/18 August 1881, from [[Kamenka]]  
* [[Letter 1851]] – 3/15 September 1881, from [[Kamenka]]  
* [[Letter 1851]] – 3/15 September 1881, from [[Kamenka]]  
* [[Letter 1948]] – 28 January/9 February 1882, from [[Rome]]  
* '''[[Letter 1948]]''' – 28 January/9 February 1882, from [[Rome]]  
* [[Letter 1968]] – 14/26 February 1882, from [[Naples]]  
* '''[[Letter 1968]]''' – 14/26 February 1882, from [[Naples]]  
* [[Letter 2045]] – 18/30 June 1882, from [[Grankino]]  
* [[Letter 2045]] – 18/30 June 1882, from [[Grankino]]  
* [[Letter 2072]] – 29 July/10 August 1882, from [[Kamenka]]  
* [[Letter 2072]] – 29 July/10 August 1882, from [[Kamenka]]  
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* '''[[Letter 3989]]''' – 22 December 1889/3 January 1890, from [[Moscow]]  
* '''[[Letter 3989]]''' – 22 December 1889/3 January 1890, from [[Moscow]]  
* '''[[Letter 4134]]''' – 4/16 June 1890, from [[Frolovskoye]]  
* '''[[Letter 4134]]''' – 4/16 June 1890, from [[Frolovskoye]]  
* '''[[Letter 4397a]]''' – early/mid June 1891 (?), from [[Moscow]]  
* '''[[Letter 4397a]]''' – early/mid-June 1891 (?), from [[Moscow]]  
* '''[[Letter 4894]]''' – 19/31 March 1893, from [[Moscow]].
* '''[[Letter 4894]]''' – 19/31 March 1893, from [[Moscow]].


55 letters from Anna Aleksandrova-Levenson to the composer, dating from 1880 to 1893, are preserved in the [[Klin]] House-Museum Archive.
55 letters from Anna Aleksandrova-Levenson to the composer, dating from 1880 to 1893, are preserved in the {{RUS-KLč}} at [[Klin]] (a{{sup|4}}, Nos. 2046–2100).


==Bibliography==
==Bibliography==

Latest revision as of 17:14, 14 March 2024

Anna Aleksandrova-Levenson (1856–1930)

Russian pianist and teacher (b. 1856; d. 27 December 1930 in Tomsk), born Aleksandra Yakovlevna Levenson (Александра Яковлевна Левенсон); known after marriage as Anna Yakovlevna Aleksandrova-Levenson (Анна Яковлевна Александрова-Левенсон).

Anna graduated in 1878 from the Moscow Conservatory, where she was a student in Tchaikovsky's harmony and instrumentation classes, and studied piano under Karl Klindworth. She taught in educational institutions in Moscow, but remained in contact with Tchaikovsky, who recommended her as a music teacher to his friend Nikolay Kondratyev on his estate at Nizy. Anna married Nikolay Aleksandrovich Aleksandrov (1858–1936), a chemistry teacher at the German School in Moscow, who was later appointed a professor of pharmacology at Tomsk University. Their son Anatoly Nikolayevich Aleksandrov (1888–1982) later became a famous composer and edited Tchaikovsky's string quartets in volume 31 of Tchaikovsky's Complete Collected Works (1955).

Correspondence with Tchaikovsky

33 letters from Tchaikovsky to Anna Aleksandrova-Levenson have survived, dating from 1877 to 1893, of which those highlighted in bold have been translated into English on this website.

55 letters from Anna Aleksandrova-Levenson to the composer, dating from 1880 to 1893, are preserved in the Tchaikovsky State Memorial Musical Museum-Reserve at Klin (a4, Nos. 2046–2100).

Bibliography