Tat’yana A. Zaytseva

Doctor of Art Criticism, Professor at Rimsky-Kor­sakov St. Petersburg State Conservatory and St. Petersburg Theological Academy, Honored Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation, Member of the Union of St. Petersburg Com­po­sers. Pianist and musicologist. Research interests: history of Russian music, textology and source study, St. Petersburg performing school. Author of 8 monographs, including: “M. A. Bala­ki­rev. Origins” (2000), “Artistic Lessons of M. A. Bala­­­kirev. Pianism, Conducting, Pedagogy” (2012), “Treasures of Russia: The Sacred Music of M. A. Ba­la­kirev” (2013), “M. A. Balakirev. Way to the Future” (2017), “Vladimir Nielsen: Thoughts Aloud” (2016); prepared the world’s first Complete col­lec­tion of spiritual works of Balakirev (2015). Scien­tific editor and compiler of 14 collections of research articles and materials, which made up the series “Musical Petersburg: Past and Present” ini­tiated by T. A. Zaitseva. Her research papers (more than 200 in total) have repeatedly received support from the Russian Humani­­tarian Science Foun­dation and the Rus­sian Foun­dation for Basic Research.