Soviet composer Yevgenia Iosifovna Yakhina (1918 – 1983)[1] was born in Kharkiv (today part of Ukraine). She studied composition under Vissarion Shebalin at the Moscow Conservatory, graduating in 1945.[2] She taught at the Moscow School of Music from 1944 to 1948, then taught evening classes at an unspecified school beginning in 1953. Yakhina set poems by Alexander Blok, Vadim Shefner, and other Soviet poets, to music.[3]

Her compositions include:[4]

Chamber

  • Concerto for Oboe and Piano (1953)[5]
  • Prelude (piano; 1954)
  • Sonata (violin and piano)
  • String Quartet (1946)
  • Suite (clarinet and piano; 1952)[6]
  • Watercolors (harp; 1976)

Orchestra

  • Children's Scenes (1975)
  • Dramatic Poem (1955)

Vocal

References

  1. ↑ "MusicSack / Music Sack". musicsack.com. Retrieved 2020-06-12.
  2. ↑ Hixon, Donald L. (1993). Women in music : an encyclopedic biobibliography. Hennessee, Don A. (2nd ed.). Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-8108-2769-7. OCLC 28889156.
  3. ↑ Biographical dictionary of Russian/Soviet composers. Ho, Allan Benedict, 1955-, Feofanov, Dmitry. New York: Greenwood Press. 1989. ISBN 0-313-24485-5. OCLC 19065298.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  4. ↑ Cohen, Aaron I. (1987). International encyclopedia of women composers (Second, revised and enlarged ed.). New York. ISBN 0-9617485-2-4. OCLC 16714846.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  5. ↑ "Index of /resources". oboes.us. Retrieved 2020-06-12.
  6. ↑ Richards, Melanie Ann (1993). A selected bibliography of music for clarinet and one other instrument by women composers (DMA document). The Ohio State University. ISBN 979-8-208-88863-6. ProQuest 304059199.
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