Gnessin State Musical College

The Gnessin State Musical College (Russian: Государственный музыкальный колледж имени Гнесиных) and Gnesins Russian Academy of Music (Russian: Российская академия музыки имени Гнесиных) is a prominent music school in Moscow, Russia.[1]

The main building

History

Originally known as the Gnessin Institute, it was established on February 15, 1895 by three sisters: Evgenia Fabianovna, Elena Fabianovna, and Maria Fabianovna Gnessin.[2] Each of the Gnessin sisters had studied piano and graduated with distinction from the Moscow Conservatory.[3] The college quickly became, and remains, an elite music school, considered second only to the Moscow Conservatory.[4]

Founders
Gnessin sisters (Ольга, Елена, Евгения, Мария, Елизавета.)

The Gnessin sisters were born in Rostov-on-Don, the children of Rostov Rabbi Fabian Osipovich Gnessin.[5] The entire family appears to have possessed musical talent.[6] Their brother, Mikhail Fabianovich Gnessin, was a celebrated composer and teacher who later served (1945-1957) as head of Gnessin State Musical College.[7]

Alumni

Russian unless otherwise stated

Faculty

References
  1. Moisenko, Rena. (1949) Realist Music: 25 Soviet Composers, London: Meridian Book, Ltd.
  2. Phillips, Anthony & Prokofiev, Sergey. (2006). "Sergey Prokofiev Diaries, 1907-1914: Prodigious Youth", p. 498 Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
  3. Phillips, Anthony & Prokofiev, Sergey. (2006). "Sergey Prokofiev Diaries, 1907-1914: Prodigious Youth", p. 498 Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
  4. Phillips, Anthony & Prokofiev, Sergey. (2006). "Sergey Prokofiev Diaries, 1907-1914: Prodigious Youth", p. 498 Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
  5. Hundert, Gershon David. (2008) The YIVO encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe: Volume 2, p. 1595 New Haven: Yale University Press
  6. Moisenko, Rena. (1949) Realist Music: 25 Soviet Composers, London: Meridian Book, Ltd.
  7. Moisenko, Rena. (1949) Realist Music: 25 Soviet Composers, London: Meridian Book, Ltd.
  8. "Rim Banna". World Music Central. Archived from the original on 16 July 2012. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
  9. http://www.namibian.com.na/archive_pdf_19851990/1986_TheNamibian/6%20June%201986.pdf
  10. http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?cPath=1037_3130_3167&products_id=807310
  11. http://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/jspui/bitstream/10539/13021/1/Pg%201-120.pdf

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