Stefania Zaranek
Stefania Anatolyevna Zaranek was a Soviet composer, pianist, and artistic director. Zaranek studied at the Leningrad Conservatory with M. Steinberg and Samariy Savshinsky. After graduating in 1926, she taught piano at the Conservatory and the Worker's High School. From 1942 to 1944 she was the artistic director of the Gorky Philharmonia.
Life
Stefania Anatolyevna Zaranek was born on 23 September 1904 in Kotelnich, Russian Empire. She was a Soviet composer, pianist, and artistic director.Zaranek studied at the Leningrad Conservatory with M. Steinberg and Samariy Savshinsky. After graduating in 1926, she taught piano at the Conservatory and the Worker's High School for ten years. From 1942 to 1944 she was the artistic director of the Gorky Philharmonia.
She died in Leningrad on 17 January 1972.
Her compositions include:
Ballet
- Chudesnaya Fata
- Golub Mira
- Mechta
Film
- Kholmogorsk
- Mars
Operetta
- Chest Mundira
- Schastlivui Put
- Taina Morya
- Zolotoi Fontan
Orchestra
- Ballad of the Ukraine
- Dance Suite
- Kartini Duma Pro Ukrainu
- Piano Concerto
Piano
- Sonata, Opus 2
- Cinq Miniatures, Opus 4
Theatre
- music for over 20 plays
Vocal
- Fizkulturnaya
- Four Song Dances: Polonaise, Mazurka, Krakoviak, Gopak
- Iz Dnevnika Shkolnitsy Song Cycle
- Pesnya O Narodnom Kitaye
- Pesnya O Vietname
- U Ryazanskikh Prichalov
- Za mir I Svobady Song Cycle