Anna Nikolajewna Jessipowa
Anna Nikolaevna Jessipowa ( Russian Анна Николаевна Есипова in Germany also known as Anetta Essipoff or Annette von Essipow and after her marriage as Annette Essipow-Leschetizky ; January 31 * . Jul / 12. February 1851 greg. In St. Petersburg , † 5 August. jul. / 18th August 1914 greg. in Saint Petersburg ) was a Russian pianist .
Life
Anna Jessipowa received her musical training at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory under Theodor Leschetizky , with whom she was married (as his second wife) from 1880 to 1892. In 1869 she passed her exams and was awarded a gold medal from the Conservatory, which was awarded for the first time. While still a student, she made her debut in 1869 under the direction of Leschetizky in the Salzburg Mozarteum and in the same year in a concert of the Imperial Russian Music Society in St. Petersburg.
She first appeared in Russia and from 1875 on on concert tours in the capitals of Europe and America, where she also gave concerts with the cellist Anton Hekking . She was considered one of the most outstanding concert pianists of her time.
After her marriage, she lived with Leschetizky in Vienna until their divorce in 1893 , where, in addition to her concert activities, she led the preliminary class at her husband's piano school.
In 1885 she was appointed royal Prussian court pianist. Passion and poetic understanding were praised as virtues of their game.
From 1893 to 1908 she was a professor at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, but interrupted in 1905 when she resigned from her position in protest against Rimsky-Korsakov's dismissal and went to Berlin for some time . On February 7, 1906, she recorded ten pieces on piano rolls for the Freiburg company M. Welte & Sons , manufacturer of the Welte-Mignon reproduction piano .
Her last public appearance was on March 3, 1908 in St. Petersburg.
Her students included Thomas de Hartmann , Leonid Kreutzer , Sergei Prokofjew and Anastassija Dawydowna Wirsaladze . According to the fashion of the time, Jessipova frequented theosophical circles a lot .
The Leschetizky-Jessipowa couple had two children, Robert and Thérèse Leschetizky (1872–1956), who worked as a soprano and singing teacher.
literature
- Comtesse Angèle Potocka: Theodore Leschetizky, an intimate study of the man and the musician . New York, The Century Co., 1903 p. 223 f.
- Cord Garben: Past luck ... the art and fate of legendary pianists. Wilhelmshaven 2018, 2nd edition. Pp. 55-78. ISBN 978-3-7959-1013-6 .
Annette Essipoff plays for Welte-Mignon on February 7, 1906
Annette Essipoff plays in the Tonhalle Düsseldorf on October 20, 1878
Yessipova's grave in the Alexander Nevsky Monastery
Web links
- Article Anna Nikolajewna Jessipowa in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ^ Ludwig Karpath : Memories of Theodor Leschetitzky. In: Neues Wiener Journal , No. 7934/1915 (XXIIIth volume), December 2, 1915, p. 6, top left. (Online at ANNO ). .
- ↑ a b Kadja Grönke (text), Anna Nikolaevna Esipova (Translit.): European instrumentalists of the 18th and 19th centuries. Essipoff (...) . In: sophie-drinker-institut.de , 2013, accessed on August 26, 2015.
- ↑ German National Library .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Jessipowa, Anna Nikolajewna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Есипова, Анна Николаевна (Russian); Essipoff, Annette; Essipova, Annette; Essipow, Annette von; Essipoff, Annetta |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian pianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 12, 1851 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Petersburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 18, 1914 |
| Place of death | St. Petersburg |