Elena Gennadyevna Sorokina (born April 6, 1940 , Moscow ) is a Russian pianist, musicologist-historian, professor and head of the Department of Russian Music History at the Moscow Conservatory .
| Elena Sorokina | ||
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| Full name | Elena Gennadyevna Sorokina | |
| Date of Birth | April 6, 1940 (aged 79) | |
| Place of Birth | Moscow , RSFSR , USSR | |
| A country |  the USSR  Russia | |
| Professions | pianist , musicologist-historian, teacher | |
| Instruments | the piano | |
| Genres | classic | |
| Collectives | piano duet with A. G. Bakhchiev | |
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Doctor of Arts ( 1990 ). Vice-Rector for Scientific and Creative Work (since 2001 ), Head of the Department of the History of Russian Music, Professor at the Department of the History of Russian Music, Professor at the Department of Chamber Ensemble and Quartet of the Moscow Conservatory .
Organizer and first president (together with A. G. Bakhchiev ) of the All-Union Association of Piano Duos ( 1989 ).
Member of the Union of Composers of the USSR ( 1985 ) (since 1992 - Union of Composers of the Russian Federation ). Academician of the International Academy of Creativity. Member of the editorial board of the publishing house "Music" .
Honored Artist of the Russian Federation ( 1992 ). She was awarded Honorary Diplomas of the Council of Ministers of the USSR and the Government of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Culture of the USSR and the Russian Federation, the Knowledge Society.
Biography
1958 : graduated with a gold medal from the piano and theoretical departments of the Central Music School (class of I. R. Klyachko).
1959 - 1967 : taught at the Central Music School.
1963 : graduated with honors from the Theoretical and Composer Department (class A.I. Kandinsky) of the Moscow Conservatory, and the next year - the piano department (class I.R. Klyachko). She continued her postgraduate studies at the Department of the History of Russian and Soviet Music (supervisor A. I. Kandinsky).
From 1965 to the present Works at the Moscow Conservatory:
- 1965-1978: Lecturer, Department of the History of Russian Music,
- 1965-1966: lecturing on the methodology of teaching musical literature and the history of music at the Moscow Institute for Advanced Teachers
- 1969-1978 : lecturer at the Department of the History of Music of the Peoples of the USSR,
- 1979 - 1984 : Associate Professor, Department of the History of Russian Music,
- 1984-1991: and. about. professors of the department of the history of Russian music,
- 1992 —2011 - Head of the Department of the History of Russian Music,
- 2001-2008 - Vice-rector for scientific and creative work,
- from 1991 to the present - Professor, Department of the History of Russian Music.
- 1965-1966: lecturing on the methodology of teaching musical literature and the history of music at the Moscow Institute for Advanced Teachers
In 1968 , together with her husband A. G. Bakhchiev, she created the piano duet, recognized as the “ Golden Duet of Russia ”. [one]
1977 : defense of the dissertation “ Problems of the development of the piano sonata in Russia ” (Moscow Conservatory).
1989 : one of the organizers of the All-Union Association of Piano Duets and (together with A. G. Bakhchiev) its first president.
1990 : defense of his doctoral dissertation “ Piano duet. History of the genre ”(Moscow Conservatory).
Creativity
Discography
Duet with A. G. Bakhchiev ( company "Melody" ):
- I. S. Bach , his family, students. Piano duets (2 records).
- V.A. Mozart . A complete collection of piano duets (3 records).
- A. Dvorak . Slavic dances op. 46 and 72 ( 2002 ).
- F. Schubert . Compositions for Piano Four Hands ( 2003 ).
- “ Music and Painting ” (S. Bresgen, S. Veres, B. Bartok , with the ensemble of soloists. Conductor G. Rozhdestvensky ) (2003).
- Piano duets (F. Schubert, F. Couperin , C. Debussy , E. Podgayts, S. Rachmaninov , J. Field , S. Mayer, M. Glinka , A. Dvořák, I. Brahms ) (2003).
- Piano duet: romantic masterpieces. JN Hummel. R. Schumann . A. Rubinstein (2003).
- Music of France ( J. Bizet , M. Ravel , J. Massenet , F. Poulenc , L. Durey , J. Offenbach ) ( 2004 )
- Piano duets (B. Bartok, V. Lutoslavsky, J. Enescu)
- The music of old Vienna (E. Strauss, J. Lanner, A. Diabelli, F. Schubert, I. Strauss, E. Sauer) (2004)
Bibliography
- Second Symphony N. Peiko // From the History of Russian and Soviet Music. Vol. 1. - M .: 1971.
- Piano sonatas by S. V. Rachmaninov // From the history of Russian and Soviet music. Vol. 2. - M .: 1976.
- Piano duet. The history of the genre. - M .: Music, 1988 .-- 319 s - ISBN 5-7140-0120-6 . ( Contents ).
- Mozart und die russische Kultur des XIX. Jahrhunderts // Mozart: Aspekte des XIX. Jahrhunderts. [H. Jung]. - Mannheim, 1992.
- German composers. Piano Duets / Series “Foreign Musicians in Russia”. - M.: Deca-VS, State Metallurgical and Metallurgical Plant M.I. Glinka, 2005.
Notes
- ↑ Unforgettable duets. Elena Sorokina and Alexander Bakhchiev (Unavailable link) . Date of treatment July 26, 2014. Archived July 28, 2014.