ORLOVA, Alexandra (Anatol'evna)

ORLOVA, Alexandra (Anatol'evna). American (born Russia), b. 1911. Genres: Young adult fiction, Music, Biography. Career: Leningrad Conservatoire, Leningrad, USSR, bibliographer, 1933-35; Leningrad Philharmonic, Leningrad, library bibliographer, 1935-37, library director, 1941-44; Tchaikovsky Museum, Klin, USSR, scientific worker, 1938-40; Leningrad Scientific Research, Music and Theatre Institute, Leningrad, scientific worker, 1945-50; writer, 1950-. Publications: (co-author) Dni i gody P.Tchaikovsky, 1940; M.I. Glinka: Letopis' zhizni i tvorchestva, 1952, 2nd ed., 1977, rev. ed. as Glinka's Life in Music: A Chronicle, 1988; M.I. Glinka: Literaturnoe nasledie, 2 vols., 1952-53; M.I. Glinka: Zapiski, Commentaryee, 1953; Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka, 1954; Petr Il'ich Chaikovskii, 1840-1893 (juvenile), 1955; Glinka v vospominaniakh sovremennikov, 1955; Trudy i dni M.P. Musorgskogo, 1963, as Musorgsky's Days and Works: A Biography in Documents, 1983; (with V.N. Rimskii-Korsakov) Stranitsy zhizni N.A. Rimskogo-Korsakova, 4 vols., 1969-73; Glinka v Peterburge, Lenizdat, 1970; (ed. with M.S. Pekelis) Literaturnoe nasledie M.P. Musorgskogo, 2 vols., 1971; Musorgskii v Peterburge, 1974; Mikhail Glukh, Ocerk zhisni i tvorchestva, 1977; P.I. Chaikovskii: O muzyke, o zhizni, o sebe, 1976; (trans. with revisions by R.M. Davison) Tchaikovsky: A Self-Portrait, 1990; (comp. and ed.) Musorgsky Remembered, trans. by V. Zaitzeff and F. Morrisch, 1991; Tchaikovsky Bez Retushi, 2001.