Anna Eller (born Anna Josefina Sofia Maria Fenrich von Gjurgjenovac, later Kremer, then Eller, December 24, 1887 – 1942) was an Estonian pianist. She was the first wife of the composer

Heino Eller Heino Eller (7 March 188716 June 1970) was an Estonian composer and pedagogue, known as the founder of contemporary Estonian symphonic music. Life and career Eller was born in Tartu on 7 March 1887, where he took private lessons in violin and ...

Life

Anna Eller grew up in

Warsaw Warsaw, officially the Capital City of Warsaw, is the capital and List of cities and towns in Poland, largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the Vistula, River Vistula in east-central Poland. Its population is officially estimated at ...

, Poland, studying piano in private classes with

Aleksander Michałowski Aleksander Michałowski (17 October 1938) was a Polish pianist, pedagogue, and composer. Early life and education Michałowski was born in 1851 in Kamianets-Podilskyi, Ukraine, which was a part of the Russian Empire. In 1867, at age 16, he stu ...

. In 1906 she married her first husband, Rafael R. Kremer. In 1907 she moved to

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the List of cities and towns in Russia by population, second-largest city in Russia after Moscow. It is situated on the Neva, River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland ...

to study piano at

Saint Petersburg Conservatory The N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg State Conservatory () (formerly known as the Petrograd Conservatory and Leningrad Conservatory) is a school of music in Saint Petersburg, Russia. In 2004, the conservatory had around 275 faculty member ...

. She enrolled in the class of Nikolai Abramychev, and graduated in 1915. In 1908 she met

, her lover and future husband, who studied violin at the same conservatory. After her graduation in 1915 she worked as a piano teacher in

Tartu Tartu is the second largest city in Estonia after Tallinn. Tartu has a population of 97,759 (as of 2024). It is southeast of Tallinn and 245 kilometres (152 miles) northeast of Riga, Latvia. Tartu lies on the Emajõgi river, which connects the ...

.Heino Elleri Nimeline Tartu Muusikakool
''On Heino and his wife Anna'' (March 2017), in Estonian In 1920 Anna Eller married to Heino Eller.

Death

Anna Eller was arrested by the SS in June 1942, because of her Jewish ancestry, and was later executed.

References

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