KARNITSKAYA, Nina Andreyevna

Soviet pianist, lecturer and composer. Kiev, May 5, 1906. She studied composition under B. Karagichev and the piano under M. Pressman at the Baku Conservatory, graduating in 1931. She taught theoretical subjects at music schools until 1938 and then at the Baku Conservatory until 1948, when she became head of the department of theoretical subjects at the Music School of Ordzhonikidze until 1961. She was composer for the Russian Theatre in Baku. From 1941 to 1946 she was a member of...