Vera Vasilievna Gornostayeva
Wera Wassiljewna Gornostajewa ( Russian Вера Васильевна Горностаева ; born October 1, 1929 in Moscow ; † January 19, 2015 ibid) was a Russian pianist and piano teacher.
Live and act
Vera Gornostajewa, daughter of a pianist trained at the Moscow Conservatory and an engineer, attended the Central Music School Moscow from 1937 to 1947 , where she was taught by piano teachers. She then studied at the Moscow Conservatory in Heinrich Neuhaus's class . In 1955 she completed her piano training after successfully completing her graduate studies. Gornostajewa taught first at the Gnessin Institute in Moscow and from 1959 at the Moscow Conservatory. In 1963 she became a university lecturer and in 1969 she was appointed professor. In 2007 she took over the management of the piano department, a position she held until the end of her life.
Between 1970 and 1988 Gornostajewa was not allowed to leave the Soviet Union because the government classified it as "politically unreliable". Since 1990 she has been teaching in the Yamaha Masterclass within the Yamaha Musical Fund . She was president of the Moscow Association of Musicians . Gornostaewa has given master classes in Japan , Italy , Germany , France , England , Switzerland , Poland , the USA and the UK . She was a jury member at numerous international competitions, including Casadesus in Cleveland in 1991, Hamamatsu in Japan in 1997, Rachmaninoff in Moscow in 2002 and Maria Callas in Athens in 2004. She also gave seminars for Russian music teachers and lectures in classical music and visual arts on radio and television.
She has published numerous articles, books and nine musical recordings by classical composers that have been released by Philips , Phoenix, Yamaha and other record companies.
Gornostajewa was the mother of the pianist Ksenija Knorre and the grandmother of the Lithuanian-Russian pianist Lukas Geniušas , who was born in Moscow in 1990, and the actress Lika Kremer, daughter from Knorre's first marriage to Gidon Kremer . She died on January 19, 2015 in a Moscow hospital at the age of 85.
Student (selection)
Vera Gornostayeva had numerous students who achieved significant competitive successes. These included Sergei Babayan , Pavel Egorov , Alexander Fiseisky , Ivo Pogorelich , Aleksandra Romanić , Detlef Kaiser , Ayako Uehara , Hiromi Uehara , Anna Gourari and Alexander Paley .
bibliography
- Two hours after the concert
Awards
- 1966: Honored Artist of the RSFSR
- 1988: People's Artist of the RSFSR
Web links
- Biography with picture (Russian)
- Biography and short biography of Vera Gornostaewa
- Recordings by Vera Gornostaewa
- Sergei Babayan in conversation with Zsolt Bognár: The greatest teacher, 'her face became the face of Beethoven'. In: Slipped Disc , Norman Lebrecht , January 22, 2015 (English).
Individual evidence
- ^ Jean-Pierre Thiollet et al .: 88 notes pour piano solo. Neva Éditions, Magland 2015, ISBN 978-2-3505-5192-0 , p. 52.
- ↑ Горностаева Вера Васильевна. Moscow Conservatory , accessed November 25, 2018 (Russian).
- ↑ Скончалась народная артистка России Вера Горностаева. Obituary on svpressa.ru of January 20, 2015 (Russian, accessed January 20, 2015).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gornostajewa, Vera Vasilievna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Горностаева, Вера Васильевна (Russian); Gornostaewa, Vera |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian pianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 1, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Moscow |
| DATE OF DEATH | 19th January 2015 |
| Place of death | Moscow |