Maria Yudina
Marija Veniaminovna Yudina (Russian Мария Вениаминовна Юдина; * 28 Augustjul / September 9 1899greg in Newel, Russian Empire, .. † November 19, 1970 in Moscow) was a Russian pianist and piano teacher. It is considered a major representative of the Russian piano school in the tradition of Anton Rubinstein.
Life
Yudina, which hardly was known despite intensive contacts with musicians such as Otto Klemperer and Paul Hindemith in the West, came after a study on the St. Petersburg Conservatory (including with Maximilian Steinberg and Felix Blumenfeld, who also taught Horowitz ) in 1913 for the first time publicly in Russia. In 1930 she stepped up its concert activity in the Soviet Union and became known hereafter by their powerful and energetic performances of the piano music of Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven, as well as their interpretations of modern composers such as Shostakovich, for which she campaigned personally in 1948, Stravinsky, Arthur Honegger and Bohuslav Martinů.
After her conversion to the Russian Orthodox Church in 1919, the native of a Jewish family Judina became increasingly involved in charitable and humanistic purposes. Personally ascetic alive - she shared a basement apartment with her brother - they donated their appearance fees of the church and drew up the first private reading of Boris Pasternak's " Doctor Zhivago ", which brought them into conflict with the official Soviet cultural policy. In the twenties years she was with the Bakhtin Circle in the former Leningrad, Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin to contact. From 1932 to 1933 she taught at the conservatory in Tbilisi and was built in 1936, was appointed at the suggestion of Heinrich Neuhaus, the piano class of the Moscow Conservatory, where she taught until 1951.
Her fearless behavior towards those in power actually brought the apolitical artist often in trouble. Rumour its announcement towards the atheists 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 KV have located 488, which he had caused himself after listening to a radio broadcast.