Gnesina, Yelena Fabianovna
(1874–1967)
Gnesina [Gnyésseenuh], Yelena Fabianovna (5–18/31–1874, Rostov-on-Don; 4–4–1967, M.). Pianist, pedagogue, and comp. Sister of Gnesin. Following study with E. Langer , Busoni, and Schloezer, became a pupil of V. Safonov at the M. Cons., grad. 1893. In 1895 founded, with her sisters Yevgeniya and Mariya (also pf teachers), a music sch. that in 1944 became the Gnesin Institute. Among her pf students were Babadzhanyan, S. Kats, A. Khachaturyan, Knipper, Mil'man, I. Morozov , Oborin, Ruch'yov, and…