Vladimir Kashperov

Vladimir Nikitich Kashperov (, 25 August 1826 – 26 June 1894) was an Imperial Russian composer, theorist and professor. Kashperov was born on 25 August 1826 in Chufarovo within the Simbirsk (now Ulyanovsk) province in the Russian empire. He died on 26 June 1894 in the village of Romantsevo, located in the Mozhaysky district, Moscow. Family Kashperov was married to Adel Nikolaevna Kashperova (maidan name: Beketova), a soprano operatic singer. Glinka’s book “The School of Singing” is dedicated to her. He had one daughter named E. V. Kashperova. Life In 1844, he graduated from the School of Guards Ensigns in St. Petersburg, and served in the Life Guards Cuirassier Regiment. Upon leaving military service, he began to devote himself to music. He studied piano with German composers Adolf von Henselt and Hans Vogt. Having been recommended by Mikhail Glinka, in the 1850s he began to take lessons in composition from German musicologist and composer Sieghfried W. Dehn in Berlin. Kashperov then travelled to Italy and lived there for eight years (1857-1865), whereupon he learned the basics of Italian vocal singing. In 1865, he returned to Moscow upon an invitation from Anton Rubenstein Pavel B