Maria Weniaminovna Yudina

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Marija Weniaminowna Yudina (photo 1922)
Members of the Bakhtin Circle in Leningrad in 1924. Sitting in the first row on the left: Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin , next to Marija Yudina.

Marija Veniaminovna Yudina ( Russian Мария Вениаминовна Юдина * August 28 . Jul / 9. September  1899 greg. In Newel , Russian empire ; † 19th November 1970 in Moscow , Soviet Union ) was a Russian pianist and piano teacher . She is considered an important representative of the Russian piano school in the tradition of Anton Rubinstein .

Life

Judina, who was hardly known in the West despite intensive contact with musicians such as Otto Klemperer and Paul Hindemith, first appeared in public in Russia in 1913 after studying at the St. Petersburg Conservatory (including with Maximilian Steinberg and Felix Blumenfeld , who also taught Horowitz ). In 1930 she intensified her concert activities in the Soviet Union and subsequently became known for her powerful and energetic performances of the piano music of Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven , as well as for her interpretations of modern composers such as Shostakovich , for whom she also campaigned personally in 1948 , Stravinsky , Arthur Honegger or Bohuslav Martinů .

After converting to the Russian Orthodox Church in 1919, Judina, who came from a Jewish family, became increasingly involved in charitable and humanistic purposes. Living ascetically personally - she shared a basement apartment with her brother - she donated her performance fees to the church and arranged for a first private reading of Boris Pasternak's “ Doctor Zhivago ”, which brought her into conflict with official Soviet cultural policy. In the 1920s she was in contact with the Bakhtin District in what was then Leningrad around Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin . From 1932 to 1933 she taught at the Tbilisi Conservatory and in 1936, at the suggestion of Heinrich Neuhaus , she was appointed to the piano class of the Moscow Conservatory , where she taught until 1951.

Her fearless demeanor towards the powerful often got the actually apolitical artist into trouble. Kolportiert is their notice to the atheist Stalin , they will pray for his soul - next to the deathbed of the dictator to the recording Judinas of Mozart's A major Piano Concerto 488 KV have been lying, which he himself had led after listening to a radio broadcast.

literature

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Judina, Marija Weniaminovna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Yudina, Maria (English spelling); Юдина, Мария Вениаминовна (Russian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet pianist and piano teacher
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH near Newel , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 1970
Place of death Moscow