Varvara Adrianovna Gaigerova
Varvara Adrianovna Gaigerova was a Soviet composer and pianist.
Life
Gaigerova studied composition under Georgy Catoire and Nikolai Myaskovsky and piano under Heinrich Neuhaus at Moscow Conservatory, where she graduated in 1927. At the Bolshoi Theatre she worked as "concertmistress" from 1936 to 1944.Gaigerova was interested in the musical folklore of the southeastern people of Soviet Russia. In her compositions she uses folk music of various regions like Kalmykia, Buryatia, Kazakhstan, Turkestan, and Uzbekistan.
Selected works
Fortress near Kamenny Brod, Op.30 ; Pechorin's Aria "И скучно, и грустно"; Тучки небесные- Symphony No. 1
- Symphony No. 2 on Kalmyk Themes
- Symphony No. 3
- Symphonic Suite on Caucasian Themes
- Suite on Udmurt Themes, for domra orchestra
- Two Suites on Kazakh Themes
- String Quartet No. 1
- String Quartet No. 2 in G Major on Yakuts Themes, Op. 17
- Sonata for viola and piano, Op.4
- Suite in D minor for viola and piano, Op.8 4 Sketches for piano
- Sonata for piano in E minor
- Sonatina on Buryat-Mongolian Themes, Op. 19 for piano
- Poem for piano
- Fantasie for piano
- Romances after Pushkin, Op.26
- Сон "Что в имени тебе моем?"
- Элегия "Безумных лет угасшее веселье"
- Ночь
- Не спрашивай
- Заклинание "О, если правда"
- Romances after Pushkin, Op.28
- Желание "Медленно влекутся дни мои"
- Ты и Вы
- Пробуждение
- Цветок
- Воспоминание
- Бессонница
- Romances after Pushkin, from Op.29
- The Diary of a Frontline Soldier, cantata for tenor, mixed chorus and orchestra. Lyrics by Iosif Utkin, Sergey Vasilyev, Aleksej Markov and Konstantin Simonov
- To the woman of Turkmenistan, lyrics by Tatiana Sikorskaya, for medium voice and piano
- Arrangements of Russian, Kalmyk, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Buryat, Kazakh, Kirghiz, Udmurt, Tatar and Uzbek songs
- Russian Folk Songs, Op. 10
- Russian Folk Song, Op.33 No.1
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- Самое главное. Чувашская песня, lyrics by Agniya Barto
- 2 Folk Dances, for domra orchestra
- Romances after Yakub Kolas
- *Book 1. В дороге, for high voice
- *Book 2. Весна, вок. цикл
- Степной гигант. Песня о Магнитострое, pub. 1932
- Идиллия
- Прости
- , 7 Romances after Lermontov, Op.31
- В альбом
- Звуки и взор
- Дай руку мне
- Нет, не тебя...
- Листок
- Силуэт
- Пускай поэта обвиняет
- Other Romances
- *Желание
- *Прощание!
- *Парус
- *Друг
- Песнь Офелии; Нет имени тебе, мой дальний, performed in 1927
- Я одна, Элегия
- Nocturne and Song without words, for violin and piano