| Intro | Russian composer and pianist |
| Was |
Musician Composer Pianist |
| From | Russia |
| Type | Music |
| Gender | female |
| Birth | 4 October 1903, Orekhovo-Zuyevo |
| Death |
6 April 1944, Moscow (aged 40 years) |
| Star sign | Libra |
Varvara Adrianovna Gaigerova, Russian: Варвара Адриановна Гайгерова, (17 October [O.S. 4 October] 1903 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