Livanova Tamara
Main achievement
Doctor of Arts. Professor at the Gnessin Institute in Moscow
About
Soviet musicologist, professor at the Gnessin Institute. Doctor of Art History (1940). Born on April 18 in Chișinău (Bessarabia Governorate). In 1932 he graduated from the Faculty of Theory and Composition, and in 1935 he completed his postgraduate studies at the Moscow Conservatory under the guidance of M.V. Ivanov-Boretsky. In the years 1933–1946 and 1948–1954 (56?) he taught at the Moscow Conservatory (professor from 1939), and in the years 1944–1948 at the Gnessin Musical Pedagogical Institute. From 1944 — senior research fellow at the Institute of Art History (now the State Institute for Art Studies of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation). In the years 1948–54 — member of the Stalin Prize Committee. In the years 1952–56 — chairman of the Expert Commission of the Higher Attestation Commission. Livanova is the author of numerous studies on a wide range of issues in Russian and Western European music of the 17th-19th centuries, published, among others, in the yearbooks "Problems of Musicology," the collections "In Memory of Glinka" (Moscow, 1958), "Russian Dramatists. The 18th Century" (Leningrad; Moscow, 1959), "From the Renaissance to the 20th Century" (Moscow, 1963), "Studies of Contemporary Art Abroad" (Moscow, 1964), "Renaissance. Baroque. Classicism. The Problem of Styles in Western European Art of the 15th-17th Centuries" (Moscow, 1966), "Classical Art Abroad" (Moscow, 1966), "The 17th Century in World Literary Development" (Moscow, 1969), etc. Livanova's numerous works cover a wide range of issues in Russian and Western European music of the 17th-19th centuries, criticism, and bibliography. Her textbook, "History of Western European Music until 1789" (1940; 2nd edition, volumes 1-2, 1982-1983) and "The Musical Dramas of Bach and His Historical Connections" (parts 1-2, 1948-1980) remain relevant. She is the compiler and editor of the books and collections: "M.V. Ivanov-Boretsky. Articles and Research..." (1972), "From the Past of Soviet Musical Culture" (issues [1]-3, 1975-1982), and "The Russian Book on Bach" (1985).
