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Tatiana Bershadskaya

Russian musicologist (1921–2021)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 4, 2025
Entity authorityQ4085274 ↗
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Tatiana Sergeevna Bershadskaya (4 July 1921 – 8 May 2021, Russian: Бершадская Татьяна Сергеевна) was a Russian musicologist, music theorist, doctor of arts and professor of the Saint Petersburg State Conservatory. She held the title of Honored Art Worker of Russia.

Bershadskaya was born in Petrograd, USSR. She died on 8 May 2021, at the age of 99.

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Tatiana Bershadskaya's home page Archived 2012-01-12 at the Wayback Machine

Interview with Tatiana Bershadskaya.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1921, 2021, 2012—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1921-07-04. The account is most persuasive where Tatiana, Bershadskaya and Russian can be independently traced.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 4, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q4085274. VIAF identifies the subject as 305075090. The Library of Congress control number is n00063289. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1921, 2021 and 2012.

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