Varvara Adrianovna Gaigerova

Varvara Adrianovna Gaigerova, , ( in Orekhovo-Zuyevo, Russian Empire – 6 April 1944 in Moscow) was a Russian 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 
 Krepost u kamennogo broda (opera based on Lermontov and some Caucasian poets; 1937–40)
 Symphony No. 1 (1928)
 Symphony No. 2 on Kalmuk Themes (1934)
 Symphony No. 3 (1936)
 Symphonic Suite on Caucasian Themes
 Suite on Udmurt Themes (domra orch)
 Two Suites on Kazakh Themes (domra orch)
 String Quartet (1926–27)
 String Quartet on Yakuts Themes (1947)
 Suite in D minor for viola and piano, op. 8
 Four Sketches (Четыре эскиза) for piano (1926)
 Sonata for piano
 Sonatina on Buryat-Mongolian Themes (1949)
 Five Romances (Pushkin) (1937)
 Arrangements of Russian, Kalmuk, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Buryat, Kazakh, Kirghiz, Udmurt, Tatar and Uzbek songs

Notes

References

External links
 
 
 Варвара Адриановна Гайгерова, short biography and works list, biografija.ru (Russian)
 Варвара Адриановна Гайгерова, catalogue entry at Российская государственная библиотека (RSL) (Russian)
 Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise, review of CD Russian Viola Sonatas by violist Eliesha Nelson and pianist Glen Inanga, 22 July 2011

Category:Female classical composers
Category:Russian composers
Category:20th-century classical composers
Category:Classical pianists
Category:Soviet people
Category:1903 births
Category:1944 deaths
Category:20th-century classical pianists
Category:20th-century Russian musicians
Category:20th-century women musicians
Category:Women classical pianists