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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 February 2010
My father, Nikolai Tcherepnin, was an outstanding Russian composer, a brilliant conductor, an illuminating pedagogue. My mother had a beautiful mezzo-soprano voice; but because she was extremely timid she became a ‘soprano domestico’, and I was the only one to accompany her singing of German lieder, Russian romances, and French songs, an experience I treasured.