Eta Moiseyevna Tyrmand ( be, Эта Майсееўна Ты́рманд, Eta Majsiejeŭna Tyrmand; russian: Эта Моисеевна Тырманд; February 23, 1917 – April 29, 2008Tut.by

) was a Belarusian composer.

Life and career

Eta Tyrmand was born in

Warsaw Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officia ...

. She graduated from the

Warsaw Conservatory The Chopin University of Music ( pl, Uniwersytet Muzyczny Fryderyka Chopina, UMFC) is a musical conservatorium and academy located in central Warsaw, Poland. It is the oldest and largest music school in Poland, and one of the largest in Europe.

in choral performance in 1938, and from the Belarusian State Conservatory in classical piano and composition in 1952. She located in

Minsk Minsk ( be, Мінск ; russian: Минск) is the capital and the largest city of Belarus, located on the Svislach and the now subterranean Niamiha rivers. As the capital, Minsk has a special administrative status in Belarus and is the admi ...

in 1939, and during

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...

lived in Frunze. She taught for nearly 40 years at the Belarusian State Conservatory where she trained several generations of highly accomplished musicians.

Works

As a composer, Tyrmand worked mainly in chamber and choral music. She composed piano sonatas, works for violin and viola, instrumental miniatures, choral pieces and song cycles with text by

Maksim Bahdanovič Maksim Adamavich Bahdanovich ( be, Максім Адамавіч Багдановіч, ; russian: Максим Адамович Богданович, translit=Maksim Adamovich Bogdanovich; 9 December 1891 – 25 May 1917) was a Belarusian poet, ...

(1891-1917),

Federico García Lorca Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca (5 June 1898 – 19 August 1936), known as Federico García Lorca ( ), was a Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director. García Lorca achieved international recognition as an emblemat ...

(1898-1936) and others. Selected works include: *''Five Preludes'' (1948) *''Variations'' (1950) *''Variations on a Belorusian Folk Theme'' (1951) *''Piano Concerto No. 1'' (1952) *''“Scenes from the Lives of Children”'' Suite (1953) *''Sonatina'' (1954) *''Piano Concerto No. 2'' (1956) *''Pioneer Suite No. 1'' (1962) *''Toccata'' (1962) *''Suite No. 2'' (1963) *''Etudes-Tableaux'' in two books (1971–72) *''“Four Moods” Suite No. 3'' (1973) *''Suite No. 4'' (1975)

References

1917 births 2008 deaths 20th-century classical composers Musicians from Warsaw Russian women classical composers Russian classical composers 20th-century women composers Academic staff of the Belarusian State Academy of Music {{Composer-stub