Anatole
Leikin received diplomas with honors from the Gnesin State Conservatory and
the Gnesin State Musical and Pedagogical Institute in Moscow, Russia. He completed
his doctoral studies in music at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Since 1989, Anatole Leikin has been teaching music history, theory, and piano at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His essays, covering such topics as Chopin, Scriabin, Rachmaninov, Shostakovich, structural and hermeneutic analysis, early tonality, and Romantic performance practice, have appeared in various journals and essay collections. Anatole Leikin has performed as a solo and chamber pianist, fortepianist, and harpsichordist. He has also recorded the piano music of Scriabin, Chopin, and EMI/Cope. He is currently serving as an editor for The Complete Chopin - A New Critical Edition (Peters Edition London).
Articles in Scholarly Journals
"Thematic Rapprochement in the Recapitulations of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven," Ad Parnassum, vol 6 no. 12 (2008): 41-67.
"Piano-Roll Recordings of Enrique Granados: A Study of a Transcription of the Composer's Performance," The Journal of Musicological Research, vol. 21 nos. 1-2 (2002): 3 - 19."Repeat with Caution: A Dilemma of the First Movement of Chopin's Sonata Op. 35," The Musical Quarterly, vol. 85 no. 3 (2001): 568 - 82.
"Missing Links: Some Aspects of Key and Mode Relationships," International Journal of Musicology, vol. 7 (1998): 9-28.
"Chopin's A-Minor Prelude and its Symbolic Language," International Journal of Musicology , vol. 6 (1997): 149-62.
"Decoding the Twenty-Four Preludes of Shostakovich: A Hermeneutic Approach," The American Journal of Semiotics, vol. 13 (1998): 165-81
http://theory.esm.rochester.edu/smt-96.abstracts/leikin.htmlhttp://www-personal.umich.edu/~siglind/tajs.html
"The Performance of Scriabin's Piano Music: Evidence from the Piano Rolls," Performance Practice Review, vol 9 no. 1 (1996): 97-113
http://www.performancepractice.com/Scriabin.html
Essays in Books
"Chopin's Preludes Op. 28 and Lamartine's Les Préludes," in Sonic Transformations of Literary Texts: From Program Music to Musical Ekphrasis, ed. Siglind Bruhn. Pendragon Press, 2008, 13-44.
"The Alternative Versions of Chopin's Piano Sonatas: Sorting Out the Composer's Intentions," in Early Music: Context and Ideas(International Conference in Musicology, pp. 178-183. Cracow: Institute of Musicology, Jagiellonian University, 2003: 178-83.
http://www.muzykologia.uj.edu.pl/conference/early_music.html
"From Paganism to Orthodoxy to Theosophy: Reflections of Other Worlds in the Piano Music of Rachmaninov and Scriabin," in Voicing the Ineffable: Musical Representations of Religious Experience, ed. Siglind Bruhn. Pendragon Press, 2002, pp. 25-44.
"Genre Connotations, Thematic Allusions, and Formal Implications in Chopin's Nocturne Op. 27 No. 1," in Chopin and his Work in the Context of Culture (Second International Musicological Congress), ed. Irena Poniatowska, pp. 232-242. Polska Akademia Chopinowska, 2003
http://www.usc.edu/dept/polish_music/news/dec99.html
"The Sonatas," chapter in Cambridge Companion to Chopin, ed. Jim Samson, pp. 160-187. Cambridge University Press, 1992; paperback edition 1994
http://uk.cambridge.org/reference/catalogue/0521477522/
"Osnovnye faktory deformatsii sonatnoy formy: ob evlutsii muzykalnogo yazyka" [The Dissolution of Sonata Norm: On the Evolution of Musical Language], in Cherty sonatnogo formoobrazovaniya [Features of Sonata Formbuilding], ed. Yevgeny Ovchinnikov, pp. 110-131. Moscow: The Ministry of Culture of RSFSR, 1978.
"Osnovnye faktory stanovleniya sonatnoy formy: ob evlutsii muzykalnogo yazyka" [The Cystallization of Sonata Norm: On the Evolution of Musical Language], in Voprosy muzykalnogo analiza [Issues of Music Analysis], ed. Zoya Glyadeshkina, pp. 51-88. Moscow: The Ministry of Culture of RSFSR, 1976.
