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Irina Elcheva

Irina Mikhaylovna Elcheva was a Russian composer. Her mother, Nadezhda Bogolyubova, was also a composer, music theorist, and pianist, and her father, M.D. Yel'cheva, was a singer. She studied at Mussorgsky College with Sergey Vol′fenson during World War II and then at the Leningrad Conservatory, where she studied piano with Aleksandr Kamensky (1950) and composition with O.S. Chishko (1958). Elcheva was a member of the USSR Union of Composers, the Znanie Society, and the Union of Theatre Workers.

Selected works
Publications • "On the Development of Musical Memory," 1953 Orchestral Simfoniya pamyati pogibshikh v blokadu Leningrada (Symphony in Memory of Those who Perished in the Siege of Leningrad), 1965 • Pechorskiye starinï (Times of Yore in Pechora), suite, 1963 • Piano Concerto, 1968 • Zavadskaya uvertyura (A Factory Overture), 1975 • Ivanovskaya uvertyura (Ivanovo Overture), 1977 Stage Spartak (Spartacus), opera, V. Chulisov, S. Tsenina, after Giovagnoli, 1961 • Skazka o lenivom bobryonke [Tale of the Lazy Beaver] (operetta, Yu. Shestalov), 1980 • Riki-Tiki-Tavi (Yel′cheva, after R. Kipling), 1985 • Alen′kiy tsvetochek (The Little Scarlet Flower) (Yel′cheva, after I. Bazhov), 1996 Choral Russkaya svad′ba (A Russian Wedding), 1966 • Khorovodnïye pesni (Round Songs), 1967 • K novoy zhizni (Towards a New Life) (oratorio, Yu. Shestakov), 1973 • Derevenskiye stsenki (Village Scenes), 1974 • Vesyolaya maslenitsa (A Merry Shrovetide) (G. Ufimtseva], cantata, 1986 • Vremena goda (The Seasons), 1989 Solo and chamber music Palekhskaya syuita (Palekh Suite) for piano, 1966 • 24 prelyudii i fugi (24 Preludes and Fugues), piano, 1969 • 5 p′yes (Five Pieces) for wind quintet, 1974 Vocal Ivanovskiye pesni (Ivanovo Songs), mezzo-soprano and piano, 1965 • Mï zhivyom na severe (We Live in the North), (Yu. Shestalov), baritone voice and piano, 1969 • Lebed′ belaya (White Swan) (trad.), 1979 ==References==
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