Queen - Friends Will Be Friends

STESHENKO-KUFTINA Valentina Konstantinovna [20 I (2 II) 1904, Swan of the Kharkov province. - 26 VIII 1953, Riga] - owls. folklorist. In 1923 she graduated from the Kiev Conservatory in the class of fp. from F.M. Blumenfeld, in 1925-35 she taught there. Concerted in Kiev, Washington and Leningrad (1924-30). Since 1928, collected and studied music. folklore; participant of folklore expeditions to the Kerch Peninsula, the Far East, in the North. Ossetia and Georgia. Since 1935, she taught at the Tbilisi Conservatory, taught the class of piano, chamber ensemble, and gave a course of lectures on the theory and history of pianism (from 1942 he was a professor, in 1947-50 he was the head of the department of piano).