Antonina V. Lebedeva-Emelina

Doctor of Art Criticism, leading researcher at the State Institute of Art Studies. Graduated from Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory (scien­tific supervisor—E. M. Levashev). In 1994, she defended her candidate dissertation “Rus­sian choral culture of the second half of the 18th cen­­tury,” in 2018, — her doctoral dissertation “Russian choral art of the second half of the 18th— early 19th centuries as a holistic phenomenon.” Since 1992, she has worked in the music sector at the State Institute of Art Studies. She has over 120 scien­tific papers. Among them are monographs: “Russian Sacred Music of the Classical Era (1765–1825). Catalog of Works” (Moscow, Progress-Tradition, 2004); “Choral Culture of the Catherine Era” (Mos­cow : Composer, 2010. 304 p.); “Music of the Liturgy of the Classical Era. Music Publications
and Studies” (Moscow : Publishing House Yask, 2022); monographic music publications: “D. S. Bort­nyan­­sky. Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom (for Three Voices)” (Moscow, Life-giving Spring in Tsa­ri­tsyno Publishing House, 2002); “Stepan Degtya­rev. Twelve Spiritual Concertos. For Choir Without Ac­com­paniment” (Moscow, Life-giving Spring in Tsaritsyno Publishing House, 2006); “Bort­nyan­sky D. S. Unknown Spiritual Concertos” (Moscow, Muzyka Publishing House, 2009). She took part in academic collective works, including the ten-volume History of Russian Music (chapters in vols. 3, 10-v), the History of Russian Art in 22 volumes (vols. 14, 15), Russian Sacred Music in Documents and Materials (vol. 8, books 1 and 2, vol. 9); in the publication of the score of the first author's edition of the opera Boris Godunov by M. P. Mussorgsky in PASS (Vols. 1–2. Moscow— Mainz: Music Publishing House, Schott Pub­lishing House, 1996).