Zhanna Pliyeva

Zhanna Vasil'yevna Pliyeva (; 10 February 1949 – 22 January 2023) was a Soviet and Russian composer and pianist.

Life Zhanna Pliyeva was born in Tskhinvali, Southern Ossetia. She studied music at the Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory, Leningrad, with Dmitry Svetozarov for piano and with Orest Yevlakhov and Alexander Mnatsakanian for composition. In 1979 she worked as an assistant to Sergey Slonimsky, and later as an orchestra musician, researcher, and teacher, and from 1979 to 1985 as director of the Tskhinvali School of Music. After 1990 she became a full-time composer.

Honors and awards Prize-winner in the All-Union Composers 'Competition in 1977 Prize-winner in the Tokyo International Composers' Competition, 1993 Honoured Artist of Republic of Northern Ossetia-Alania, 1993 President of the Presidium of the Georgian Music Society, 1989-90

Works Pliyeva's works are often based on the folklore of the Mountain People of the northern Caucasus. She has composed for stage, orchestra, and choral, instrumental and vocal solo performance. Selected works include:

Children of the Sun (children's opera, 2, Georgy Dzugayev), 1981 Fatima (ballet), 1982-84 The Passion of Adam (passion play, 2), 1993 Symphony no.1, S, perc, str Symphony no.2, 1976 Symphony no.3, 1978 Symphony no.4, 1990–91 Symphony no.5, 1994 Music for Strings, 1996 About My Homeland (Georgy Dzugayev), chorus, pf, 1979 Comic Song, 1979 A Nightingale Sings, female vv, 1979 Sospeso (understated), female vv, 2 prep pfs Chenena (trans.), genre scene, 1987 I'm Listening... It's Gone Quiet... (trad.), 4 choruses for Children, 1987 Prelyudii for piano 1970-72 Poem, Tokkata, for piano 5 sarcastic, 4 fugues, 1963–75 Minatyurï, for children, 1978, Ritual, 1978 Triads for piano, 1978 Tokkatina, for piano, 1979 A Trip to the Zoo, for Children, piano, 1980 Sonatas for piano: 1982, 1984, 1990, 1995 From Ossetian Epos (trad.), song cycle, S, T, pf, 1977 Caesar's Monologue (Georgy Bestouty), 1988 Autumn Reveries (Leo Kotsta), S, pf, 1989