Nadezhda Golubovskaya plays Bortniansky Sonata in C major

Dmitry Bortniansky (1751 - 1825) Sonata No.2 in C major 00:00 Allegro moderato 04:36 Adagio 09:22 Rondo Allegretto Recorded in 1951 Nadezhda Iosifovna Golubovskaya (1891 - 1975), She graduated in 1914 from the St. Petersburg Conservatory where she had been a student of Alexandra Rozanova and Sergei recollected her studies in Leopold Auer’s class, where together with Heifez and Polyakin. In 1920 she started working in Petersburg Conservatoire. In 1932 Golubovskaya made a trip to Berlin where she started playing clavichord. She was the first musican in the Soviet Union, who managed to perform Cuoperen, lully, Purcell, Scarlatti playing the instrument for which the music had been composed. In 1937 she was awarded the title of Honorary Artist of the Soviet Union. Her credo was a positive attitude towards studying. If you think you will fail, the chances are you will.