Olenina-d'Alheim, M.A.
Singer
1869-1970 

During her career, vocalist M.A. Olenina-d'Alheim helped foster the 
music of the Russian Mighty Handful movement, particularly that of 
Mussorgsky.  She founded the society La Maison du Lied in 1908 and 
published a newspaper of the same name from 1910 to 1911 to
promote Russian vocal chamber music.  She is credited with
introducing Mussorgsky and others to French and Belgian audiences.
She lived in France for nearly half her life before returning to her
native Soviet Union in 1959, where she continued to give master
classes in vocal music.  A frequenter of artistic circles that
included Tolstoi and Debussy, Madame Olenina-d'Alheim was a
major performer of the Russian lied and one of the first Russian
vocalists to promote the use of poetic texts as sources for vocal
music.

Multiple media, 1901-1964, 0.12 m

Concert notes, [19--?]

Concert programs, 1901

Correspondence, 1946

Manuscripts, 1942-1963

Master classes, 1964 
Consists of three sound tape reels, with transcriptons.

Memoirs, [19--]

Publications, 1910-1911 
Consists of issues 1-14 of La Maison du Lied (newspaper).

Scrapbook, 1912-1917 
Includes clippings.

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