Nina V. Pilipenko

Research Fellow, Research and Creative Center for the Study of Problems of Musical Theatre; Professor of Analytical Musicology Department

Biography

Musicologist and teacher.

Born in 1971 in Krasnodar. In 1992 she graduated from the N. A. Rimsky‑Korsakov Krasnodar Music College, in 1998 from the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music with a degree in musicology, and in 2002 she completed full‑time postgraduate studies at the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music under Professor I. P. Susidko (Doctor of Art History). She also studied with L. L. Gerver, N. S. Gulyanitskaya, Yu. K. Evdokimova, B. B. Efimenkova, I. I. Snitkova, T. V. Tsaregradskaya, M. I. Dubrovin, N. V. Zabolotnaya, Yu. V. Vasiliev, and E. E. Durandina.

She defended her Candidate of Art History dissertation «Word and Music in the Songs of Franz Schubert: An Attempt at Imagery‑Semantic Interpretation» in 2002 before the Dissertation Council of the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music.

Her Doctor of Art History dissertation «Franz Schubert and the Viennese Musical Theatre» was defended in 2018 before the Dissertation Council of the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music.

She has taught at the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music since September 2002, first in the Department of Choral and Solo Folk Singing (from 2002) and since 2011 in the Department of Analytical Musicology.

Her research interests include the history of eighteenth‑ and nineteenth‑century Western music, musical form and analysis, and opera‑theatre history. She has taken part in international scholarly conferences and is the author of fifteen publications totalling 11.9 printed sheets.

Main publications:

Musical‑Poetic Motifs in the Songs of F. Schubert: A Lecture for the Course in Musical Analysis, N. V. Pilipenko, Moscow, Gnesin Russian Academy of Music Press, 2002, 2.5 printed sheets;
«The Theme of Death in Schubert’s Songs: The Relationship between Poetic Motif and Musical Image», in Musical Education in College, issue II: Theory of Music, Krasnodar, 2005, pp. 92–112, 1 printed sheet;
«Schubert’s Alfonso und Estrella: Between Past and Future», in Musicology at the Turn of the Century: Past and Present, conference proceedings, Moscow, Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, 2007, 0.5 printed sheet;
«Franz Schubert and Italy», Muzyka i vremya, 2012, no. 2, pp. 38–41, 0.5 printed sheet;
«Franz Schubert’s Farce Die Zwillingsbrüder and the Tradition of the Viennese Singspiel», Muzykovedeniye, 2012, no. 3, pp. 17–22, 0.5 printed sheet;
«Unknown Pages of Early Nineteenth‑Century Austrian Musical Theatre: Joseph Weigl and His Opera Das Schweizerfamilie», Starinnaya muzyka, 2012, nos. 1–2, pp. 29–32, 0.5 printed sheet;
«Franz Schubert and the Theater an der Kärntner Tor», Starinnaya muzyka, 2013, nos. 3–4, 0.7 printed sheet;
«The Theater an der Wien in the First Third of the Nineteenth Century: Functions and Musical Repertoire», Starinnaya muzyka, 2014, no. 2, pp. 17–21, 0.7 printed sheet;
«Franz Schubert and Censorship in the Austrian Theatre at the Turn of the Eighteenth to Nineteenth Centuries», Starinnaya muzyka, 2015, no. 1, pp. 26–31, 0.8 printed sheet;
«The Fate of Franz Schubert’s Operatic Legacy», Starinnaya muzyka, 2016, no. 3, pp. 26–31, 0.8 printed sheet;
«Franz Schubert’s Operatic Legacy: An Introduction to the Research», Aktual’nyye problemy vysshego muzykal’nogo obrazovaniya, 2016, no. 4 (42), pp. 8–14, 0.8 printed sheet;
«Franz Schubert’s Operatic Failures: Accident or Inevitability?», Aktual’nyye problemy vysshego muzykal’nogo obrazovaniya, 2016, no. 4 (42), pp. 15–19, 0.7 printed sheet;
«The Battle Topos in Late Eighteenth‑ and Early Nineteenth‑Century European Opera: Battle Scenes and Military Fanfares», Starinnaya muzyka, 2017, no. 3, pp. 9–17, 1 printed sheet;
«“I Greet You, O Sun!”: Franz Schubert’s Operas and the Theme of Nature in Early Nineteenth‑Century Musical Theatre», Muzyka i vremya, 2017, no. 10, pp. 18–28, 1 printed sheet;
«The Viennese Singspiel in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries: Origins and Varieties», Muzyka i vremya, 2017, no. 11, pp. 3–8, 0.8 printed sheet;
«The Genre System of Early Nineteenth‑Century Austro‑German Musical Theatre through the Lens of Contemporary Theory», Uchenyye zapiski of the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, 2017, no. 3, pp. 64–80, 1 printed sheet;
«Genre Terminology in Early Nineteenth‑Century Austrian Musical Theatre», Uchenyye zapiski of the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, 2017, no. 4, pp. 77–90, 1 printed sheet;
«Franz Schubert and French Opera: On the Problem of “One’s Own and the Other” in Early Nineteenth‑Century Austrian Musical Theatre», Music Scholarship / Problemy muzykal’noy nauki, 2017, no. 4, pp. 115–121, 0.8 printed sheet.

She has developed new undergraduate courses including «Fundamentals of Rhetoric», «Fundamentals of Research and Diploma‑Thesis Preparation», «Folk Musical Creativity», and «Ethnography of the Peoples of Russia».

From 2002 to 2012 she served as Executive Secretary and, since 2012, as Academic Secretary of the Dissertation Council of the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music.