Elena Asachi’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro Pianist, singer and composer
Was Singer 
Opera singer 
Musician 
Composer 
Pianist 
From

Austria 
Romania 

Type Music 
Gender female
Birth 30 October 1789, Vienna, Austria
Death 9 May 1877, Iasi, Romania
(aged 87 years)
Star sign Scorpio
Family
Father: Anton Teyber 
Spouse: Gheorghe Asachi 
Instruments:
Piano
Voice

Elena Asachi, née Teyber, (30 October 1789 – May 1877) was a Romanian pianist, singer and composer of Austrian birth. She was the daughter of Austrian composer Anton Teyber and niece of concertmaster Franz Teyber.

Elena Teyber was born in Vienna and studied music under her father as a child in Dresden. Later she studied in Vienna under opera singer Domenico Donzelli. After completing her studies, she became a professor at Iaşi Conservatory where she was known as a pianist and composer from 1827 to 1863. She married Gheorghe Asachi, with whom she collaborated on songs and theatrical works. She died in Iaşi.

Works

Selected works include:

  • Fete pastoral des bergers moldaves (pastoral-vaudeville) 1834
  • Contrabantul (The Smuggler) (comedy-vaudeville) 1837
  • Tiganii (The Gypsies) (vaudeville with songs) 1856

Songs:

  • Ballade moldave (with G. Asachi) 1834
  • Se starb, sagst tu (G. Asachi, translated by E. Asachi) 1837
  • Song of Society (with G. Asachi) 1849
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