Irina Elcheva

Irina Mikhaylovna Elcheva (; 28 November 1926 – 8 May 2013) was a Russian composer.

Biography Her mother, Nadezhda Bogolyubova, was also a composer, music theorist, and pianist, and her father, M.D. Yel'cheva, was a singer. Elcheva was a member of the USSR Union of Composers, the Znanie Society, and the Union of Theatre Workers.

Selected works

Publications

"On the Development of Musical Memory," 1953

Orchestral

Simfoniya pamyati pogibshikh v blokadu Leningrada (Symphony in Memory of Those who Perished in the Siege of Leningrad), 1965 Pechorskiye starinï (Times of Yore in Pechora), suite, 1963 Piano Concerto, 1968 Zavadskaya uvertyura (A Factory Overture), 1975 Ivanovskaya uvertyura (Ivanovo Overture), 1977

Stage

Spartak (Spartacus), opera, V. Chulisov, S. Tsenina, after Giovagnoli, 1961 Skazka o lenivom bobryonke [Tale of the Lazy Beaver] (operetta, Yu. Shestalov), 1980 Riki-Tiki-Tavi (Yel′cheva, after R. Kipling), 1985 Alen′kiy tsvetochek (The Little Scarlet Flower) (Yel′cheva, after I. Bazhov), 1996

Choral

Russkaya svad′ba (A Russian Wedding), 1966 Khorovodnïye pesni (Round Songs), 1967 K novoy zhizni (Towards a New Life) (oratorio, Yu. Shestakov), 1973 Derevenskiye stsenki (Village Scenes), 1974 Vesyolaya maslenitsa (A Merry Shrovetide) (G. Ufimtseva], cantata, 1986 Vremena goda (The Seasons), 1989

Solo and chamber music

Palekhskaya syuita (Palekh Suite) for piano, 1966 24 prelyudii i fugi (24 Preludes and Fugues), piano, 1969 5 p′yes (Five Pieces) for wind quintet, 1974

Vocal

Ivanovskiye pesni (Ivanovo Songs), mezzo-soprano and piano, 1965 Mï zhivyom na severe (We Live in the North), (Yu. Shestalov), baritone voice and piano, 1969 Lebed′ belaya (White Swan) (trad.), 1979