Yevgenia Fabianovna Gnessina

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

Yevgenia Fabianowna Gnessina , after marriage Sawina , ( Russian Евгения Фабиановна Гнесина , after marriage Russian Савина * 1871 in Rostov-on-Don , †  6. April 1940 in Moscow ), oldest of the five Gnessina sisters, was a Russian pianist , high school teacher and sister of the Russian composer Mikhail Gnessin .

Life

Yevgenia Fabianovna Gnessina'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. They sent fourteen-year-old Yevgenia to the Moscow Conservatory , where she studied in Vasily Safonov's piano class , graduating in 1889. She also studied composition with Anton Arensky and Sergei Taneyev . She joined the circle of literature and art lovers led by the young Konstantin Alexejew, who later became Konstantin Stanislavski .

Yevgenia Fabianovna Gnessina founded the private music school of the sisters J. and M. Gnessina in February 1895 with her sisters Jelena and Marija in Moscow , which after the October Revolution, thanks to the support of Anatoly Lunacharsky, became the Second Moscow State Music School (1919), in 1925 the name of Gnessin Sisters and became the Gnessin Institute in 1944 . Her brother Mikhail, her sisters Jelena, Marija, Jelisaveta and Olga and Alexander Grechaninov also taught there .

Together with her sister Jelena, Yevgenia Fabianovna Gnessina took over the artistic direction of the school, led the piano department, taught piano, solfège for children, elementary music theory and choral conducting . In 1911 she performed the children's opera Teremok based on the music of Alexander Grechaninov , which resulted in the Gnessina Children's Music Theater , and later Repka based on the music of her student (and son of her sister Jelisaweta) Fabi Evgenyevich Vytachek (1910–1983).

Yevgenia Fabianovna Gnessina was buried in Moscow's Novodevichy Cemetery.

Honors

  • Merited Artist of the RSFSR (1925)
  • Merited Artist of the RSFSR (1935)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Anna Genova: Three Sisters of the Great Gnessinka. (accessed on 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, Yevgenia Fabianovna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Savina, Yevgenia Fabianovna; Гнесина, Евгения Фабиановна (Russian); Савина, Евгения Фабиановна (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian pianist and university teacher
DATE OF BIRTH 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostov on Don
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 1940
Place of death Moscow