The Gnessin State College of Music () and Gnessin Russian Academy of Music () comprise a music school in

Moscow Moscow is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city of Russia, standing on the Moskva (river), Moskva River in Central Russia. It has a population estimated at over 13 million residents with ...

.Moisenko, Rena. (1949) ''Realist Music: 25 Soviet Composers,'' London: Meridian Book, Ltd.

History

Originally known as the Gnessin Institute, it was established on February 15, 1895, by three sisters: Evgenia Fabianovna, Elena Fabianovna, and Maria Fabianovna Gnessin. Each of the Gnessin sisters had studied piano and graduated with distinction from the

Moscow Conservatory The Moscow Conservatory, also officially Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory () is a higher musical educational institution located in Moscow, Russia. It grants undergraduate and graduate degrees in musical performance and musical research. Th ...

.Phillips, Anthony & Prokofiev, Sergey. (2006). "Sergey Prokofiev Diaries, 1907–1914: Prodigious Youth", p. 498 Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Construction of the modern building began in 1937, interrupted during the war and resumed in 1943. The main part of the academy was built in 1946. The college quickly became, and remains, an elite music school, considered second only to the Moscow Conservatory.

Founders

The Gnessin sisters were born in

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, the children of Rostov Rabbi Fabian Osipovich Gnessin. The entire family appears to have possessed musical talent. Their brother, Mikhail Fabianovich Gnessin, was a celebrated composer and teacher who later served (1945–1957) as head of Gnessin State Musical College.

Alumni

Russian unless otherwise stated * Georgy Andryushchenko, opera singer *

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, balalaika virtuoso * Yulianna Avdeeva, pianist * Rim Banna, Palestinian singer, composer and arranger * Nikolay Baskov, singer * Sonya Belousova, Russian-American composer, pianist and recording artist * Dmitry Belosselskiy, bass * Evgeny Belyaev, singer * Boris Berezovsky, pianist * Vasilisa Berzhanskaya, opera singer * Dima Bilan, singer and Eurovision winner * Artyom Bogucharsky, actor and clarinetist * Ivan S. Bukreev, singer * Roberto Cani, violinist * Timofei Dokschitzer, trumpeter * Larisa Dolina, singer and actress * Marina Devyatova, singer * Egine, Armenian-Russian singer and songwriter * Boris Elkis, composer * Ivan Farmakovsky, jazz pianist and composer * Slava Gelfand, violinist * Alexander Goldstein, composer *

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, violinist * Dimitri Illarionov, guitarist * Alexander Ivashkin, cellist * Eugene Izotov, oboist * Mungonzazal Janshindulam, Mongolian pianist *

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, composer * Sati Kazanova, singer * Yakov Kazyansky, composer and jazz pianist * Leonid Kharitonov, singer *

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, singer and actor *

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, pianist * Lev Knipper, composer * Alexander Knyazev, cellist *

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, Russian vocalist * Rustam Komachkov, cellist * Maria Krushevskaya, Russian harpist * Elena Kuznetsova, pianist and teacher * Edward M. Labkovsky, singer * Irina Lankova, Belgian pianist * Alexander Levine, Russian-British composer * Konstantin Lifschitz, pianist * Oleg Maisenberg, pianist * Alexander Malofeev, pianist * Maxim Mironov, tenor * Roman Moiseyev, conductor * Sofia Moshevich, Canadian scholar, pianist, and teacher * Quynh Nguyen, Vietnamese pianist * Boris Parsadanian, Armenian-Estonian composer * Olga Pashchenko, pianist *

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, American composer * Kirill Rodin, cellist * Vadim L. Ruslanov, singer * Alexei T. Sergeev, singer * Prokhor Shalyapin, singer * Konstantin Shamray, pianist *

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, composer * Natalia Sheludiakova, Russian-Australian pianist and teacher * Anatoly Sheludyakov, pianist * Dmitry Shishkin, pianist * Vladimir Shkaptsov, singer * Vladislav Shoot, composer * Alexander S. Sibirtsev, singer * Leonid Sigal, violinist *

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, composer *

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, conductor * Svoy, Russian-American songwriter/producer * Mikael Tariverdiev, Georgian-Armenian composer * Valentina Tolkunova, singer *

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, pianist * Pava Turtygina, composer and pianist * Yulia Volkova, singer from the group t.A.T.u. * Aleksey Volodin, pianist * Marina Yakhlakova, pianist * Inna Zhvanetskaya, Ukrainian composer * Igor Zubkovsky, cellist

Faculty

* Timofei Dokschitzer, Russian-Ukrainian trumpeter * Mikhail Fikhtengoltz, violinist * Grigori Gamburg, conductor * Mikhail Gnessin, composer and brother of founding sisters * Maria Grinberg, Russian-Ukrainian pianist *

Aram Khachaturian Aram Ilyich Khachaturian (; 1 May 1978) was a Soviet Armenians, Armenian composer and conductor. He is considered one of the leading Music of the Soviet Union#Classical music of the Soviet Union, Soviet composers. Khachaturian was born and rai ...

, Armenian composer * Alexander Kobrin, pianist * Volodymyr Kozhukhar, conductor *

Ivan Mozgovenko Ivan Panteleyevich Mozgovenko (; 13 February 1924 – 31 December 2021) was a Soviet and Russian clarinetist and music teacher. He taught clarinet as a professor at the Gnessin State Musical College. For his participation as a soldier in World W ...

, clarinetist *

Nelli Shkolnikova Nelli Efimovna Shkolnikova (; 8 July 19282 February 2010) was a Soviet violinist who spent many years teaching in Australia and the United States. She was born in Zolotonosha, Ukrainian SSR. At the age of three, she moved with her family to Mosc ...

, Russian-Australian violinist and teacher * Natalia Shpiller, opera singer * Lyubov Streicher, composer and violinist * Inna Abramovna Zhvanetskaia, composer * Valentine Yanovna Zhubinskaya, pianist and composer

References

External links

Gnesin Academy of Music official website
(Russian)
Gnessin State Musical College website
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