About Elena Gnesina
Lived 1874 – 1967 (aged 93). Elena Gnesina was a Russian composer, music educator and pianist.
The Gnesin sisters c. 1904 (l. to r. Olga, Elena, Evgenia, Maria and Elizaveta) Elena Fabianovna Gnesina (or Gnessina; ; 30 May 1874 – 4 June 1967) was a Soviet and Russian composer and music educator, a sister of the composer Mikhail Gnesin.
Gnesina was born in Rostov-on-Don to Rabbi Fabian Osipovich Gnesin (d. 1891) and his wife Bella Isaevna (née Fletzinger), who was a singer and pianist who had studied with Stanisław Moniuszko.
Gnesina received numerous state awards, including two Orders of Lenin, and recognition as an Honoured Artist of the RSFSR (1935).
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Russian composer and music educator (1874-1967)
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Elena Gnesina was born on 18 May 1874 in Rostov-on-Don.
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Elena Gnesina died on 4 June 1967 in Moscow.
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Elena Gnesina was a composer, music educator and pianist.
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Elena Gnesina was Russian.
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