Musicologist and teacher.
A graduate of the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music in musicology (class of Professor F. G. Arzamanov), E. V. Sidorova devoted her entire professional career to the Academy, working for over thirty years (1975–2007) as Head of the Academic Office while combining administrative responsibilities with teaching.
After completing postgraduate studies at the Gnesin Academy she prepared a Candidate dissertation «Principles of Realising the Protestant Chorale in the Sacred Cantatas of J. S. Bach» under Professor E. P. Fedosova, which she defended in Rostov‑on‑Don in December 2006. She has held the academic rank of Associate Professor since 2007.
For more than forty years E. V. Sidorova has taught her own courses in polyphony, musical form, and analysis of musical works for full‑time and part‑time performance faculties. Since 2013 the bachelor curriculum in orchestral instruments has included a new course, «Practical Analysis of Musical Works», and she regularly updates the set of teaching and methodological materials.
Since 2015 she has supervised master’s theses.
Her experience at the Academy is reflected in scholarly and teaching publications:
- Polyphony: Technique of Polyphonic Writing and Polyphonic Forms, a textbook for the course «Analysis of Musical Works» (polyphony section), in five parts, Moscow, Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, 2004, 65 printed sheets, ISBN 5‑8269‑0074‑1; recommended by the Presidium of the Council for Higher Music‑Education Methodology on 1 December 2005 as a textbook for higher‑education institutions in Instrumental Performance (070101); a second revised edition is being prepared;
- Chorale and Chorale Settings in the Works of J. S. Bach, lecture for the course «Analysis of Musical Works», Moscow, Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, 2006, 64 pp., ISBN 5‑8269‑0119‑5 (4 printed sheets);
- Vocal‑Choral Cyclical Forms, lecture outline for the course «Analysis of Musical Works», Moscow, Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, 2013, 40 pp. (electronic edition).
E. V. Sidorova’s musicological interests are broad. Drawing on her dissertation, she is working on a monograph. Her research has resulted in more than twenty publications, as well as lectures and presentations at symposia and scholarly conferences.
Papers and publications over the last ten years include:
- «On the Artistic Interpretation of the Protestant Chorale in the Music of J. S. Bach», in Organnoye iskusstvo, issue 2, selected papers from the conference «Gnesin Organ Readings», Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, Moscow, 2012, pp. 30–39;
- paper «Problems of Cyclical Form: G. Palestrina, J. S. Bach, A. G. Schnittke» at the conference «Musicology in the Twenty‑First Century: Past and Present», Year of Germany in Russia, April 2012;
- article in the collection Musicology in the Twenty‑First Century: Russia–Germany. Dialogues and Parallels, Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, Moscow, 2014, pp. 101–114 (0.5 printed sheet);
- launch of a personal webpage on A. Yu. Dzhangvaladze’s site with articles, Appendix 1 to the planned monograph «The Protestant Chorale in the Sacred Cantatas of J. S. Bach» (a chronograph of Bach’s sacred cantatas), and earlier publications, December 2016: http://www.piano.ru/sidorova.html;
- «Franz Schubert’s Song Cycle Winterreise: Compositional Features of Large‑Scale and Small‑Scale Forms», paper for the IV International Internet Conference «Musical Scholarship in the Unified Cultural Space», Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, December 2016 (1.5 printed sheets), available at http://gnesinstudy.ru/ and http://www.piano.ru/sidorova.html;
- paper «Chorale Setting as an Object Combining Original and Borrowed Thematic Material» at the conference «Technique of Musical Composition I: One’s Own and the Other’s», Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, April 2017;
- «Chorale Setting: A Historical Retrospective of Method and Genre», Sovremennyye problemy muzykoznaniya, December 2017, available at http://gnesinsjournal.ru/ (0.5 printed sheet);
- «Musical Form in the Lieder Cycles of Beethoven, Schubert, and Schumann», posted March 2018 at http://www.piano.ru/sidorova.html (0.75 printed sheet);
- «Principles of Form in the Lieder Cycles of L. Beethoven, F. Schubert, and R. Schumann», Muzyka i vremya, 2018, no. 12, pp. 3–10 (0.25 printed sheet);
- «Commissioned Masterpieces: Beethoven’s Late String Quartets», in Technique of Musical Composition: From Intention to Opus, proceedings of the 3rd International Academic Conference, Gnessins Russian Academy of Music, Moscow, 2019, p. 43; Russian abstract «A Masterpiece on Commission: Beethoven’s Late String Quartets», Gnesin Academy, 2019, p. 43;
- «A Masterpiece on Commission: Beethoven’s Late String Quartets», Sovremennyye problemy muzykoznaniya, Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, 2020, no. 1, pp. 45–88;
- abstract and paper «On the Expressive Possibilities of Stretto Imitation» in the programme of the 4th International Conference «Musical Composition: Historical Avatars», Gnessins Russian Academy of Music, Moscow, 13–15 April 2021, p. 12; a lecture outline of the same title has been prepared in electronic form for publication.
Between 2017 and 2022 a number of master’s theses were prepared and successfully defended with top grades under her supervision.
State honours and titles
For long and dedicated service E. V. Sidorova was awarded the Moscow City Government medal «Veteran of Labour» in 1991.
For many years of productive work and her contribution to the preservation and development of culture and the arts she received the honorary badge «For Achievements in Culture» from the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation in 2003.
For her services in teaching, production, and scholarly‑methodological work, Presidential Decree no. 1490 of 20 December 2005 conferred on E. V. Sidorova the honorary title «Honoured Worker of Higher Education of the Russian Federation».
