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Ella Georgiyevna Adayevskaya (Ella Adaïewsky; russian: Элла (Елизавета) Георгиевна Адаевская; 26 July 1926) was a Russian-German

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Defi ...

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, and

ethnomusicologist Ethnomusicology is the study of music from the cultural and social aspects of the people who make it. It encompasses distinct theoretical and methodical approaches that emphasize cultural, social, material, cognitive, biological, and other dim ...

. Adayevskaya wrote vocal music (including

choral A choir ( ; also known as a chorale or chorus) is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform. Choirs may perform music from the classical music repertoire, which ...

works), chamber music, and two

opera Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers. Such a "work" (the literal translation of the Italian word "opera") is typically a collaboration between a composer and a librett ...

s. She also edited a collection of Italian songs and published writings on

folk music Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival. Some types of folk music may be called world music. Traditional folk music has b ...

and the

music of ancient Greece Music was almost universally present in ancient Greek society, from marriages, funerals, and religious ceremonies to theatre, folk music, and the ballad-like reciting of epic poetry. It thus played an integral role in the lives of ancient Greek ...

Life

Born in

St. Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

on 22 February 1846 as Elizaveta/Elisabeth von Schultz, as the daughter of the prominent Estophile of Baltic German heritage Georg Julius von Schultz. Adayevskaya began learning the piano in childhood. Amongst her teachers were

Adolf von Henselt Georg Martin Adolf von Henselt (9 or 12 May 181410 October 1889) was a German composer and virtuoso pianist. Life Henselt was born at Schwabach, in Bavaria. At the age of three he began to learn the violin, and at five the piano under Josephe vo ...

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, and

Alexander Dreyschock Alexander Dreyschock (15 October 1818 – 1 April 1869) was a Czech pianist and composer. Born in Žáky in Bohemia, his musical talents were first noticed at age of eight, and at age fifteen he travelled to Prague to study piano and composition ...

. She studied composition with Alexander Famintsyn and

Nikolai Zaremba Nikolai or Nicolaus Ivanovich von Zaremba (russian: Никола́й Ива́нович Заре́мба; ) was a Russian musical theorist, teacher and composer. His most famous student was Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, who became his pupil in 1861. Ot ...

. Adayevskaya was a

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derived from the notes A, D, and A, played by the

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Mikhail Glinka Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka ( rus, link=no, Михаил Иванович Глинка, Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka., mʲɪxɐˈil ɪˈvanəvʲɪdʑ ˈɡlʲinkə, Ru-Mikhail-Ivanovich-Glinka.ogg; ) was the first Russian composer to gain wide recogni ...

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''.Brown (n.d.) Her earliest works include choruses written for the Russian Imperial Chapel Choir. In the 1870s, she wrote two operas. The first, titled '' Neprigozhaya'' (''The Ugly Girl'') (in the composer's German manuscript ''Salomonida, die Tochter des Bojaren'', ''Salomonida, The Boyar's Daughter''), was a one-act piece written in 1873. The more ambitious '' Zarya'' (''Dawn'', German title ''Die Morgenröte der Freiheit (The Dawn of Freedom)'' ) followed in 1877; this four-act work was dedicated by the composer to

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Alexander II, but was rejected by the censor.Hüsken, 312 Later, she embarked on several solo concert tours of Europe and settled in

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in 1882. In 1881, she composed her ''Greek Sonata'' for

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and

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

. In Italy, she collected national songs, among others songs of the people of the

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region in quintuple metre.Eaglefield Hull (1924), 6. In 1911, she moved to

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where was associated with the circle of the poet

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and published many articles on folk music. Adayevskaya died in

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in 1926. She was buried in the

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Works

Operas

*'' Neprigozhaya'' (''The Ugly Girl''), 1873 *'' Zarya svobody'' (''The Dawn of Freedom''), 1877

Vocal music

*''Yolka'' (''The Fir Tree''), cantata, c. 1870; also *other choral works, songs

Chamber music

*''Greek Sonata'' for clarinet and piano, 1881 *piano pieces

Notes

References

*Brown, Malcolm Hamrick (n.d.)
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External links

Biographer Renate Hüsken's website on Adaïewsky
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