Maria Fabianovna Gnessina

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

Marija Fabianowna Gnessina ( Russian Мария Фабиановна Гнесина ; * 1876 in Rostov-on-Don , †  October 11, 1918 in Moscow ), third of the five Gnessina sisters, was a Russian pianist , university teacher and sister of the Russian composer Mikhail Gnessin .

Life

Marija Fabianowna 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. Marija Fabianovna Gnessina studied at the Moscow Conservatory in the piano class of NJ Shishkins, graduating in 1895.

In February 1895, together with her older sisters Jelena and Yevgenia, with the support of the patron Alexander Pavlovich Kawerin, she founded the private music school of sisters J. and M. Gnessina in Moscow , which after the October Revolution became the Second Moscow State Music School thanks to the support of Anatoly Lunacharsky ( 1919), received the name of the Gnessina Sisters in 1925 and became the Gnessin Institute in 1944 . Marija Fabianowna Gnessina was a piano teacher. Her brother Mikhail, her sisters Yevgenia, Jelena, Jelisaveta and Olga and Alexander Grechaninow were other lecturers there. The composer Reinhold Glière dedicated six pieces for piano four hands op. 41 (1909) to Marija .

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Anna Genova: Three Sisters of the Great Gnessinka (accessed July 11, 2017).
  2. ↑ a b c d e 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, Maria Fabianovna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Гнесина, Мария Фабиановна (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian pianist and university teacher
DATE OF BIRTH 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostov on Don
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 1918
Place of death Moscow