Nadezhda Bryusova
Nadezhda Bryusova was a Soviet musicologist, music educator, and public figure. She was the sister of the poet Valery Bryusov and a professor at the Moscow Conservatory.
She graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in 1904 as a pianist. She studied piano with Konstantin Igumnov, having earlier studied with Alexander Gubert and Vasily Safonov. Her theory teachers included Sergei Taneyev and Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, and she studied the history of church singing with Stepan Smolensky. She later became a student and follower of Boleslav Yavorsky.
Bryusova taught at the Yaroslavl branch music school of the Russian Musical Society in 1905–1906, the Moscow People’s Conservatory in 1907–1916, and the Alexander Shanyavsky University from 1916 to 1919. She taught at the Moscow Conservatory from 1921 to 1943 and became a professor in 1923. There she also served as vice rector, dean of the pedagogical faculty, research staff member, head of a center studying the musical creativity of the peoples of the Soviet Union, and head of the department of musical folklore. From 1935 to 1938, she took part in folklore expeditions in the Moscow region, Karelia, the Urals, and Kursk Oblast. In 1948–1950, she was executive secretary of the journal Soviet Music.
Her books and pamphlets included Science of Music: Its Historical Paths and Present State (1910), The Temporal and Spatial Structure of Form (1911), and Russian Folk Song in Russian Classical and Soviet Music (1948). She also wrote about the music of Alexander Scriabin and Sergei Taneyev, and published a book on Vladimir Zakharov. In 1950, she received the title Honored Worker of Arts of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.