Yelisaveta Fabianovna Gnessina

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The Gnessina sisters Olga, Jelena, Jewgenija, Marija and Jelisaweta Gnessina (from left)

Jelisaweta Fabianowna Gnessina ( Russian Елизавета Фабиановна Гнесина ; * 1879 in Rostov-on-Don , †  April 29, 1953 in Moscow ), fourth of the five Gnessina sisters, was a Russian violinist , university teacher and sister of the Russian composer Mikhail Gness .

Life

Jelisaweta's father was the state commissioned Rabbi Fabian Ossipowitsch Gnessin. Her mother Bella Issajewna Fletsinger-Gnessina studied with Stanisław Moniuszko and was a singer and pianist. Jelisaweta studied at the Moscow Conservatory in Jan Hřímalý's violin class , graduating in 1901.

Then Jelisaveta joined the private music school of the sisters J. and M. Gnessina as a violin teacher , which their older sisters Yevgenia , Jelena and Marija founded in February 1895 in Moscow with the support of the patron Alexander Pavlovich Kawerin . (The school became the Second Moscow State Music School after the October Revolution, thanks to the support of Anatoly Lunacharsky (1919), in 1925 it was named the Gnessina Sisters, and in 1944 it became the Gnessin Institute .) Her brother Mikhail, her sisters Yevgenia, Jelena , Marija and Olga and Alexander Grechaninow were other lecturers there. Jelisaveta also taught music theory , solfège , ensemble playing and directed the orchestra .

Jelisaweta was married to the violin maker Yevgeny Franzewitsch Witatschek . Her son Fabi Evgenjewitsch Witatschek (1910–1983) became a composer and music teacher . Yelisaveta was buried in Moscow's Novodevichy Cemetery.

Honors

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Anna Genova: Three Sisters of the Great Gnessinka (accessed July 11, 2017).
  2. ↑ a b c d Article Gnessina, Gnessin, Gnesina, Gnesin, Schwestern (accessed on July 11, 2017) in the Lexicon of European Female Instrumentalists of the 18th and 19th Centuries (Sophie Drinker Institute).
  3. ↑ a b ГНЕСИНЫ (accessed July 11, 2017).
  4. ↑ Еврейский мемориал: Семья Гнесиных (accessed July 11, 2017).
personal data
SURNAME Gnessina, Jelisaveta Fabianovna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Гнесина, Елизавета Фабиановна (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian violinist and university teacher
DATE OF BIRTH 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostov on Don
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 1953
Place of death Moscow