Olga O. Moskvina

She graduated with distinction from the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music in 2010 and completed postgraduate studies there in 2013 under the supervision of Professor Irina S. Stogniy. The topic of her diploma thesis was «The Symphonic Works of Richard Strauss: At the “Crossroads” of Music and Literature».

In 2013 she defended her PhD thesis in Musicology on the topic «Principles of Narrativity in the Symphonic Works of Richard Strauss».

From 2006 to 2008 she worked as a research fellow in the M. I. Glinka State Central Museum of Musical Culture, in the Research, Exhibition, and Educational Department «Museum P. I. Tchaikovsky and Moscow».

She has taught since 2005, giving courses in theoretical disciplines to students at various levels. Since 2013 Olga O. Moskvina has taught in the Department of Producing and Management for the Performing Arts at the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, and also holds a part‑time position in the Departments of Analytical Musicology and Music Theory.

Her main professional interests include:

• the interaction of music with other arts;
• narratology and principles of narrativity in music;
• issues of musical content;
• methodology of art history;
• questions of style, particularly Biedermeier and late Romanticism;
• questions of interpretation and the reading of musical works.

Olga O. Moskvina is a regular contributor to scholarly conferences, where she presents papers on her research.

Selected publications:

• «The Treatment of the Scherzo Genre in Richard Strauss’s Symphonic Poem Till Eulenspiegel» in Muzyka i vremya, Moscow, 2010, no. 5.
• «The Cathartic Treatment of Death in Richard Strauss’s Symphonic Poem Tod und Verklärung» in Teatr. Zhivopis. Kino. Muzyka, ed. K. L. Melik‑Pashayev, Moscow: GITIS, 2012, no. 2, pp. 155–165.
• «The Symphonic Works of Richard Strauss from the Perspective of Narratology» in Muzykovedenie, 2013, no. 2, pp. 10–18.
• «Richard Strauss’s Interpretation of Literary Plots (on the Example of His Symphonic Poems)» in Problems of Artistic Interpretation, proceedings of the All‑Russian Conference, 9–10 April 2009, Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, Moscow, 2010, pp. 330–341.
• «Features of Biedermeier in Richard Strauss’s Eine Alpensinfonie» in Music in the Modern World, proceedings of the International Student Conference, 22–23 April 2010, Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, Moscow, 2011, pp. 144–149.
• «Selection of Material as a Narratological Act (on the Example of Richard Strauss’s Symphonic Poem Also sprach Zarathustra)» in Studies by Young Musicologists, Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, Moscow, 2011, pp. 162–170.
• «Features of Narrativity in the Symphonic Works of Richard Strauss» in The Musical Work in the Context of Artistic Culture, ed. L. V. Savvina, comp. V. O. Petrov, Astrakhan State Conservatoire, 2012, pp. 226–235.
• «Narratological Techniques of Musical Analysis (on the Example of Richard Strauss’s Symphonic Poems)» in Art History and the Humanities in Contemporary Russia: Parallels and Interactions, proceedings of the International Conference, 9–12 April 2012, Moscow: Kniga po Trebovaniyu, 2012, pp. 346–351.
• «“Narrative” Features of Richard Strauss’s Symphonic Poem Don Juan» in Musical Art and Scholarship in the Modern World: Parallels and Interaction, proceedings of the International Conference, 13–14 November 2012, ed. L. V. Savvina, comp. V. O. Petrov, Astrakhan: GAOU AO DPO «Astrakhan Institute for Advanced Training and Retraining», 2012, pp. 137–142.