Anna Yesipova

Anna Nikolaevna Jessipowa (Russian Анна Николаевна Есипова in Germany aka Anetta Essipoff or Annette von Essipow and after her marriage as Annette Essipow - Leschetizky; * 31 Januarjul / February 12 1851greg in St. Petersburg, .. † 5 Augustjul. / August 18 1914greg. St. Petersburg ) was a Russian pianist.

Life

Jessipowa received her musical training at the St. Petersburg Conservatory under Theodor Leschetitzky, with whom she had been married since 1880. 1869 She made together with Tchaikovsky their exams, both of which were awarded a gold medal of the Conservatory, which was awarded for the first time. You first appeared in Russia and from 1875 also on tour in the capitals of Europe and in America, where they were also together with the cellist Anton Hekking concerts. She was considered one of the finest concert pianists of her time. 1885 she was appointed Royal Prussian Hofpianistin. Passion and poetic conception were praised as advantages of their game. From 1893 to 1908 she was a professor at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. On 7 February 1906, she played for the Freiburg-based company M. Welte & Sons, maker of the Welte-Mignon reproducing piano, ten pieces on piano rolls one. Her pupils included Thomas de Hartmann, Leonid Kreutzer and Sergei Prokofiev. Jessipowa perverse fashion of the time corresponding amount in theosophical circles.