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Anna Aleksandrova-Levenson

Russian pianist and teacher (b. 1856; d. 27 December 1930 in Tomsk), born Aleksandra Iakovlevna Levenson (Александра Яковлевна Левенсон, Aleksandra Jakovlevna Levenson, Alexandra Yakovlevna Levenson); known after marriage as Anna Iakovlevna Aleksandrova-Levenson (Анна Яковлевна Александрова-Левенсон, Aleksandra Jakovlevna Aleksandrova-Levenson, Alexandra Yakovlevna Alexandrova-Levenson).

Anna graduated in 1878 from the Moscow Conservatory, where she was a student in Tchaikovsky's harmony and instrumentation classes, and studied piano under Karl Klindworth. She taught in educational institutions in Moscow, but remained in contact with Tchaikovsky, who recommended her as a music teacher to his friend Nikolai Kondrat'ev on his estate at Nizy. Anna's married Nikolai Aleksandrovich Aleksandrov (1858–1936), a chemistry teacher at the German School in Moscow, who was later appointed a professor of pharmacology at Tomsk University. Their son Anatolii Nikolaevich Aleksandrov (1888–1982) later became a famous composer, and edited Tchaikovsky's string quartets in volume 31 of the Soviet collected edition of his works (1955).

Tchaikovsky's correspondence with Anna Aleksandrova-Levenson:

• 33 letters from Tchaikovsky to Anna Iakovlevna Aleksandrova-Levenson have survived, dating from 1877 to 1893.