Olga Fabianovna Gnessina

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

Olga Fabianowna Gnessina , after marriage Alexandrova , ( Russian Ольга Фабиановна Гнесина , after marriage Russian Александрова * 1881 in Rostov-on-Don ; †  9. March 1963 in Moscow ), youngest of five Gnessina sisters, was a Russian pianist , high school teacher and sister of the Russian composer Mikhail Gnessin .

Life

Olga's 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. Olga Fabianovna Gnessina studied in the piano class of her sister Jelena at the private music school of sisters J. and M. Gnessina , which her older sisters Yevgenia , Jelena and Marija founded in February 1895 in Moscow with the support of 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, Jelisaveta and Alexander Grechaninov were lecturers there.

In 1901 Olga Fabianowna Gnessina completed her studies and became a piano teacher at the music school of the sisters J. and M. Gnessina . The composer Reinhold Glière dedicated twenty-four easy pieces for piano four hands op. 38 (1908) to her. In the summer she lived at her dacha .

At the beginning of the German-Soviet War , Olga Fabianowna Gnessina and her sister Jelisaveta were evacuated to Sverdlovsk . Then she resumed teaching in Moscow. One of her students was the future singer Irina Archipowa .

Olga Fabianovna Gnessina 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).
  5. ↑ Reinhold Gliere Description of works (accessed on July 14, 2017).
  6. ↑ Ksenia Isaeva: A history of Russian dachas: From Anton Chekhov to the present. (accessed on July 14, 2017).
  7. ↑ Irina Arkhipova Biography (accessed July 14, 2017).
personal data
SURNAME Gnessina, Olga Fabianovna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gnessina, Alexandrowa Fabianovna; Гнесина, Ольга Фабиановна (Russian); Александрова, Ольга Фабиановна (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian pianist and university teacher
DATE OF BIRTH 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostov on Don
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 1963
Place of death Moscow