Анотація:
In the history of Ukrainian musicology of the first half of the 20th century there are still many “white spots” which hinder to reproduce the truthful picture of the development of the domestic executive schools. In the piano art such undeservedly forgotten personality is the Kyiv pianist, first executor of B. Lyatoshynski’s piano compositions Valentyna Steshenko-Kuftina. The epistolary heritage (private diaries) of this phenomenal personality introducing into scientific circulation for the first time will let to follow the aesthetical ideals of the pianist in the context of philosophical conceptions in the first third of the 20th century and to find out the reflections of the latter conceptions in the artist’s execution style.