Nadezhda Muromtseva
Russian pianist, music critic, and author (b. 1848; d. 1/14 April 1909), born Nadezhda Aleksandrovna Muromtseva (Надежда Александровна Муромцева).
In 1870, she graduated from Nikolay Rubinstein's piano class at the Moscow Conservatory, and went on to tour widely in Russia and western Europe. In 1883, she opened a women's music school in Moscow on Povarskaya Street, and from the 1880s she also wrote music review articles under the pen-name "N. A. Znamensky", as well as short stories as "N. A. d'Essard" [1].
Tchaikovsky rated Muromtseva's talents very highly. "She is one of the finest virtuosi we have ever heard in Moscow", he wrote in 1874. "In addition to a faultless technique, Madame Muromtseva has masses of taste and expressivity. It is said that A. G. Rubinstein, after hearing her play during the first rehearsal, went into raptures. I think that such praise must mean more to Madame Muromtseva than any favourable press review" [2]
Dedications
In 1870, Tchaikovsky dedicated his piano piece Rêverie — No. 1 of the Three Pieces, Op. 9, "à Mademoiselle N. Mouromtzeff".
Correspondence with Tchaikovsky
No letters from Tchaikovsky to Nadezhda Muromtseva are known, but one letter from Muromtseva to the composer, dating from 19 February/2 March 1880, is preserved in the Tchaikovsky State Memorial Musical Museum-Reserve at Klin (a4, No. 3026).
Notes and References
- ↑ See https://person.lib48.ru/muromtseva-nadezhda-aleksandrovna (accessed 2 September 2023).
- ↑ Tchaikovsky's music review article The Second and Third Weeks of the Concert Season (TH 287), published in the Russian Register, 14 March 1874 [O.S.].
