Elena G. Wehrmeyer

Musicologist, Candidate of Art Criticism, a graduate of the Gnesins Russian Academy of Music. From 1991 to 1996, she was the editor of the journal “Sovetskaya Muzyka” (now “Music Academy”). At the Russian Institute of Art Studies, she defended her Candidate Dissertation on the topic “Russian Musical Avant-garde of the 1910s. On the Origins of the “New Music” of the 20th Cen­tury” (1993). She worked with materials of Rus­sian composers at the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris, at the archives of Washington, Mo­naco, Basel and others. From 1998 to 2000, she was engaged in deciphering the Russian-language part of S. Prokofiev’s correspondence as an employee of the Serge Prokofiev Archive in London. The author of the first monograph on the work of N. Obukhov (“Message from Niko­lai Obukhov: reconstruction of biography,” Berlin, 2006; second edition—Moscow, 2008; third—Paris, 2011). Participated in scientific projects of the Humboldt University of Berlin, the Hoch­schule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber in Dresden, the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover in Hannover, the Paul Sacher Stiftung in Basel, the Holland Festival in Amsterdam and the Schott Music Publishing House in Mainz.