Yuri Khokhlov
Yuri Khokhlov (February 2, 1922–July 2, 2010) was a Soviet and Russian musicologist. He was born in Torzhok and died in Moscow. He held a doctorate in art studies and was named an Honored Artist of the Russian Federation in 2005.
He graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in 1951, where he studied with R. I. Gruber and V. Zuckerman, and completed postgraduate studies there in 1954 under Gruber. He edited books for the Music Fund from 1955, then worked as a senior editor at the Muzgiz publishing house from 1956 to 1966. From 1967 to 1976, he was a senior research editor at the Soviet Encyclopedia publishing house and deputy editor-in-chief of the Musical Encyclopedia.
From 1982, Khokhlov was a senior research fellow in the Department of Classical Western Art at the All-Union Institute of Art History, later the Russian State Institute of Art Studies. He was elected an honorary member of the International Schubert Institute in Vienna in 1978. An initiator of the Russian Schubert Society, he served as its first chairman from 1994 to 2001 and, from 2002, as honorary chairman and artistic director.
His books include The Piano Concertos of Franz Liszt (1953), Tchaikovsky’s Orchestral Suites (1961), Franz Schubert’s Winterreise (1967), Schubert: Some Problems of Creative Biography (1972), Schubert’s Songs: Features of Style (1987), and Franz Schubert’s Piano Sonatas (1998). He also compiled and edited collections of Schubert’s documents, correspondence, diaries, poems, and songs, and edited the 2009 volume Franz Schubert and Russian Musical Culture.