Anna Artobolevskaya

Anna Danilovna Artobolevskaya (1905–1988) was a Soviet pianist and one of the key figures in the pedagogy of the Soviet piano school. She taught at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory and at the Central Music School affiliated with the conservatory, and she was awarded the title of Honored Teacher of the RSFSR. Her maiden name was Karpeka.

She was born in Kyiv on October 4, 1905. She graduated from the Kyiv Conservatory in 1924 (studying with V. V. Pukhalsky) and from the Leningrad Conservatory in 1930 (studying with Maria Yudina). In the 1930s she taught piano in Leningrad music schools and also appeared as a solo concert pianist.

From 1944 to 1953 Artobolevskaya taught at the military faculty attached to the Moscow Conservatory (now the Military Institute of Military Conductors of the Military University of the Russian Ministry of Defense) and also at the Gnessin ten-year music school. From 1944 she taught at the Central Music School at the Moscow Conservatory, shaping generations of performers through her teaching.

Her students included Alexei Lyubimov, Alexei Nasedkin, Alexei Golovin, Vladimir Ovchinnikov, Yuri Rozum, Evgeny Korolyov, composer Sergei Slonimsky, Lyubov Timofeeva, Yuri Bogdanov, Tatyana Fedkina, Valery Pyasetsky, and Vadim Rudenko. She was known as the author of many works on teaching methodology, and her tutorial “First Encounter with Music” was reissued six times.

Artobolevskaya died in Moscow on May 2, 1988, and was buried at Vagankovo Cemetery. In her memory, the Artobolevskaya Music Foundation was created in 1999 and a prestigious Russian competition for young pianists bearing her name was established; Moscow Children’s Music School No. 43 was named after her in 1993. Her published works include “Children and Music. Little Ones and the Muses” (1972), “Maria Veniaminovna Yudina. Articles. Memoirs. Materials” (1979), and “Your Children, You, and Music. Dialogues on Upbringing” (1979).

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