Discover the Kashperova Edition
Leokadiya Kashperova (1872–1940), consigned for decades to a footnote in musical history as Stravinsky’s piano teacher, is undergoing rediscovery as a composer in her own right. Graduating from the St Petersburg Conservatoire, she emerged as a virtuoso pianist and composer in the late romantic tradition and was associated with some of the great musicians of her day, including Mily Alexayevich Balakirev and Anton Rubinstein. She performed as a pianist in Germany and the UK in the 1900s but her compositional career was silenced after the Russian Revolution in 1917.
