Anna Yesipova (born ''Anna Nikolayevna Yesipova'' ''
russian: Анна Николаевна Есипова">/nowiki>russian: Анна Николаевна Есипова', — ) was a prominent Russian
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pianist
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. Her name is cited variously as ''Anna Esipova; Anna or Annette Essipova; Anna, Annette or Annetta Essipoff; Annette von Essipow; Anna Jessipowa''.
Life
Yesipova was one of Teodor Leszetycki
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's most brilliant pupils. She made her debut in Saint Petersburg in 1871 attracting rave reviews and the artistic admiration of both Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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and Franz Liszt
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, particularly for her effortless virtuosity and singing tone. She then began concert tours which brought her in 1876 to the United States
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, where her playing was greatly admired. She heard the playing of Fanny Bloomfield and advised her to train under Leszetycki, whom Yesipova married in 1880 and later divorced. In the Summer of the same year she gave a number of concerts in Lisbon, where she had a very warm reception.
Yesipova was probably the first pianist to program the complete set of Frédéric Chopin
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's Preludes, Op. 28 in a recital, for a concert in 1876. Previously the practice was to perform excerpts only.
In 1885, Yesipova was appointed Royal Prussia
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n Court Pianist. From 1893 to 1908, she was professor
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of piano
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forte at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory
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. Among her students were Sergei Prokofiev
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, Leff Pouishnoff, Sergei Tarnowsky
Sergei Vladimirovich Tarnowsky (also spelled Sergei Tarnovsky; russian: Серге́й Владимирович Тарновский; 3 November 188322 March 1976) was a Russian pianist and teacher.
Biography
Tarnowsky was born in Kharkiv. Visiti ...
, Maria Yudina
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, Leonid Kreutzer
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Life and career
Kreutzer was born in St. Petersburg into a Jewish family. He studied composition under Alexander Glazunov and piano under Anna ...
, Isabelle Vengerova
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, Anastasia Virsaladze Anastasia Virsaladze née Abdushelishvili, Georgian: ანასტასია ვირსალაძე, (November 11, 1883 – September 5, 1968) was a Georgian concert pianist and music teacher. In 1921, she began to teach at the Tbilisi Stat ...
, Leo Ornstein, Isidor Achron, Thomas de Hartmann
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Life
De Hartmann was born o ...
, and Alexander Borovsky (Borowsky) 889–1968
Recordings
In the early 1900s, Yesipova made a number of piano rolls, some of which have made been available as modern recordings (including Thalberg Thalberg or Talberg is a surname of German origin, which means "valley hill". It may refer to:
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's ''Fantasia on a theme from Bellini's La Sonnambula
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'').''Through the Night'' program
on BBC Radio 3
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, 28 February 2010Anna Essipova (Welte-Mignon Piano Rolls) - Pupils of Leschetizky Vol.1
There is one extant acoustic recording of her playing, which is Benjamin Godard's Gavotte in G, made onto an Edison cylinder by Julius Block in 1898.
Notes
References
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Comtesse Angèle Potocka: ''Theodore Leschetizky, an intimate study of the man and the musician''. New York, The Century co., 1903 p. 223 f.
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