Tatiana Cherednichenko (1 September 1955 – 28 November 2003) was a Russian scholar of musicology, cultural studies scholar, critic, and journalist.
After graduating from the Central Specialized Music School attached to the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory, she studied in its theory and composition faculty and then completed postgraduate study there. In 1980, she defended a dissertation on the structure of artistic evaluation in music criticism and received a candidate’s degree in philosophy. In 1989, she earned a Doctor of Art History degree for a dissertation on trends in Western musical aesthetics and methodological paradoxes in the study of music.
Cherednichenko took part in archival reconstructions of Russian operas, including Alexander Borodin’s Prince Igor, staged at the Vilnius Opera in 1974 and the Bolshoi Theatre in 1994; A Christmas Drama—Comedy on the Nativity of Christ by Saint Metropolitan Dimitry of Rostov, staged at the Moscow Chamber Musical Theatre in 1976; and Mikhail Glinka’s A Life for the Tsar, staged at the Bolshoi Theatre in 1989. From 1977 to 1983, she prepared rhythmically matched translations of German and English poetry for editions of vocal works by Beethoven and Schubert.
She contributed articles to the Music Encyclopedic Dictionary, including an entry on the musical work as a form of a composer’s output. From 1993 to 1998, she wrote and hosted the television project Lexicon of Cultural History, and she appeared as a guest expert on television and radio programs. She joined the editorial board of New World magazine in 1999. Her books included Trends in Contemporary Western Musical Aesthetics (1989), Music in the History of Culture (1994), and Music Reserve. The 1970s: Problems, Portraits, Cases (2001). She wrote more than 300 articles, notes, and reviews. She received a Patriarchal Christmas diploma in 2000 and a prize and diploma for the best publication in the journalism category of New World in 1996.