Score and Parts Piano
Trio (SCORE+PARTS)
SKU: HL.48025116
Op. posth Score and
Parts. Composed by
Leokadiya Kashperova. BH
Piano. Classical.
Softcover. 120 pages.
Boosey & Hawkes
#M060139307. Published by
Boosey & Hawkes
(HL.48025116).
ISBN
9781784547325. UPC:
196288074397. 9.0x12.0
inches.
Leokadiya
Kashperova (1872-1940),
hitherto consigned to a
footnote in musical
history as
StravinskyÂ’s piano
teacher, is undergoing
rediscovery. A double
graduate of the St
Petersburg Conservatoire,
she emerged as a virtuoso
pianist and composer in
the romantic tradition.
She was associated with
some of the great
musicians of her day,
including Balakirev and
Auer. She performed in
both Germany and the UK
in the 1900s, but her
career petered out after
1920. The pencil
manuscript of the Piano
Trio in A minor
(c1930-40) was discovered
in 2019 in the Russian
National Museum of Music,
Moscow. The work has been
edited for performance by
Graham Griffiths in close
collaboration with
members of the Gould
Piano Trio, who gave the
world première in
2020. A four-movement
work of 28 minutes'
duration and in
full-blooded Romantic
idiom, it joins the
recently republished
Cello Sonatas 1 & 2
in the Kashperova
Edition.