Notes

1. I have chosen to use the English translation of the Russian, rather than the French, and refer to Natalia "Kourakina" as "Kurakina." This choice is also inline with the authorized name recommended by the Library of Congress.

2. Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Souvenirs de Madame Vigée Le Brun (Paris: Charpentier, 1869), Vol. 1, Letter V, 44.

3. Souvenirs, Vol. 1, Letter XII, 71.

4. Ibid., Chapter XVIII, 356.

5. Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun, The Memoirs of Elisabeth Vigée-Le Brun trans. Siân Evans (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989), 27; Souvenirs, Vol. 1, Letter IV, p. 30.

6. Le Brun and Evans, Memoirs, 12, 18, 24.

7. See John Rice's work for many details about Le Brun's Paisiello portrait. John Rice, "Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun's Portrait of Giovanni Paisiello, " in Artists and Musicians: Portrait Studies from the Rococo to the Revolution, ed. Daniel Heartz and Beverly Wilcox (Ann Arbor, MI: Steglein Publishing, 2014): 312-37.

8. Marina Ritzarev, Eighteenth Century Russian Music (Aldershot, UK; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 214), 79, 80, 224.

9. Amanda Ewington, ed., Russian Women Poets of the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries (Toronto: Iter, Inc., 2014): 153.

10. Gesine Argent, "Noble Sociability in French: Romances in Princess Natalia Kurakina's Album," 2013: 4. https://data.bris.ac.uk/datasets/3nmuogz0xzmpx21l2u1m5f3bjp/Kurakina%20introduction.pdf

11. Natalia Ogarkova, "The Music Salon in Russia in the First Half of the 19th Century," Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University, Arts 10, no.1 (2020): 20. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu15.2020.102.

12. Anne Harley, "Russian Women Composers from the Court of Catherine the Great: the Romances of Princess Natalia Ivanovna Kurakina (1786-1831)," Journal of Singing 72, no. 1 (Sept./Oct. 2015): Gale Academic OneFile.

13. Rice, "Portrait of Giovanni Paisiello," 325.

Notes

  1. I have chosen to use the English translation of the Russian “Куракина,” and refer to Natalia “Kourakina” as “Kurakina.” This choice is also in line with the authorized heading recommended by the Library of Congress.

  2. Souvenirs de Madame Vigée Le Brun (Paris: Charpentier, 1869), Vol. 1, Letter V, 44.

  3. Souvenirs, Vol. 1, Letter XII, 71.

  4. Souvenirs, Vol. 1, Chapter XVIII, 356.

  5. Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun, The Memoirs of Elisabeth Vigée-Le Brun, trans. Siân Evans (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989), 27; Souvenirs, Vol. 1, Letter IV, p. 30.

  6. Le Brun and Evans, Memoirs, 12, 18, 24.

  7. See John Rice’s work for many details about Le Brun’s Paisiello portrait. John Rice, "Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun's Portrait of Giovanni Paisiello," in Daniel Heartz, Artists and Musicians: Portrait Studies from the Rococo to the Revolution, ed. Beverly Wilcox (Ann Arbor, MI: Steglein Publishing, 2014), 312–37.

  8. Marina Ritzarev, Eighteenth Century Russian Music (Aldershot, UK; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2014), 79, 80, 224. 

  9. Urusova reference.

  10. Anne Harley, “Russian Women Composers from the Court of Catherine the Great: the Romances of Princess Natalia Ivanovna Kurakina (1786-1831),” Journal of Singing 72, no. 1 (Sept./Oct. 2015): 11-21. Gale Academic OneFile (accessed April 19, 2023), 11+. https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A484973796/AONE?u=marriottlibrary&sid=bookmark-AONE&xid=77abe712.

  11. Stanford first nights

  12. Kurakina as salonniere.

  13. Music album. Harley

  14. Rice, "Portrait of Giovanni Paisiello,”