Essipoff (Essipova), Anna
Essipoff (Essipova), Anna
Essipoff (Essipova), Anna, famous Russian pianist and pedagogue; b. St. Petersburg, Feb. 13, 1851;d. there, Aug. 18, 1914. She was a pupil of Leschetizky, whom she married in 1880 and divorced in 1892. She made her debut in St. Petersburg, and subsequently made long concert tours throughout Europe and in America. Her distinguishing artistic quality was a singing piano tone and “pearly” passage work. From 1870 to 1885 she gave 669 concerts. In 1893 she was engaged as a prof, of piano at the St. Petersburg Cons., where she taught until 1908. Many famous pianists and composers, Prokofiev among them, were her students.
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