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Aleksandra Ivanovna Hubert

Александра Ивановна Губерт

Russian pianist and teacher. Born Aleksandra Ivanovna BATALINA (Баталина) in 1850.

From 1874 until 1883 Aleksandra taught the piano at the Moscow Conservatory (where she had enrolled as a student in 1867), and here she met her husband, Nikolai Hubert, who was professor of music theory. Both were close friends of Tchaikovsky, who also taught at the Conservatory during the 1870s. Aleksandra helped Tchaikovsky to make piano duet arrangements of his Suite No. 2 (1883) and Manfred symphony (1885), and she also made her own transcriptions of many of his other works.

Following Nikolai's death in 1888, Tchaikovsky helped Aleksandra to take over her husband's position as inspector at the Moscow Conservatory, and she retained this post until 1914.

Aleksandra Hubert died in 1937.