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Stefania Anatolyevna Zaranek (23 September 1904 – 17 January 1972) was a Soviet composer, pianist, and artistic director.

Zaranek was born in Kotelnich, Russian Empire, and 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.

Her compositions include:

Ballet

  • Chudesnaya Fata (1947)
  • Golub Mira (1951)
  • Mechta (1947)

Film

  • Kholmogorsk
  • Mars

Operetta

  • Chest Mundira (E. Pavlov; 1937)
  • Schastlivui Put (E. Pavlov; 1939)
  • Taina Morya (1954)
  • Zolotoi Fontan (K. Guzynin and Aleksei Maslennikov; 1949)

Orchestra

  • Ballad of the Ukraine (1954)
  • Dance Suite (1935)
  • Kartini Duma Pro Ukrainu
  • Piano Concerto (1930)

Piano

  • Sonata, Opus 2 (1926)
  • Cinq Miniatures, Opus 4

Theatre

  • music for over 20 plays

Vocal

  • Fizkulturnaya (L. Rakovsky; 1934)
  • Four Song Dances: Polonaise, Mazurka, Krakoviak, Gopak (M. Shiffman; 1955)
  • Iz Dnevnika Shkolnitsy Song Cycle (E. Aplaksina and A. Churkin; 1948)
  • Pesnya O Narodnom Kitaye (I. Lukovski; 1950)
  • Pesnya O Vietname (I. Lukovski; 1950)
  • U Ryazanskikh Prichalov (L. Khaustov; 1950)
  • Za mir I Svobady Song Cycle (B. Rayevsky, B. Kezhun and B. Khanchev; 1950)

References

  1. Hixon, Donald L. (1993). Women in music : an encyclopedic biobibliography. Hennessee, Don A. (2nd ed.). Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-8108-2769-7. OCLC 28889156.
  2. ^ Cohen, Aaron I. (1987). International encyclopedia of women composers (Second edition, revised and enlarged ed.). New York. ISBN 0-9617485-2-4. OCLC 16714846.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  3. "IMSLP: Free Sheet Music PDF Download/Zaranek". imslp.org. Retrieved 2020-05-29.
  4. Roberge, Marc-Andre (1993–2003). "From Orchestra to Piano: Major Composers as Authors of Piano Reductions of Other Composers' Works". Notes. 49 (3): 925–936. doi:10.2307/898925. ISSN 0027-4380. JSTOR 898925.


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