Maria Kotlyarevskaya-Kraft

Soviet and Russian musicologist
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IntroSoviet and Russian musicologist
PlacesRussia
wasMusicologist
Work fieldAcademia Music
Gender
Female
Birth24 March 1922
Death28 August 2012 (aged 90 years)
Star signAries
The details

Biography

Maria Alexeevna Kotlyarevskaya-Kraft (Russian: Мария Алексеевна Котляревская-Крафт; March 24, 1922 – August 28, 2012) was a Soviet and Russian musicologist, pedagogue, enlightener and Honored Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation [ru].

Biography

The musician was born on March 24, 1922, in Vitebsk (modern Belarus). Her father A. F. Shtein was a hereditary musician and one of the founders of musical education in Novosibirsk and her mother T. M. Kotlyarevskaya was a pianist.

In 1952, she graduated from the Tashkent Conservatory.

Pedagogical activity

Kotlyarevskaya-Kraft was a teacher of music theory and solfeggio at the Children's Music School No. 1 (Novosibirsk) and Novosibirsk Musical College.

Her methodology has become the educational basis for more than one generation of novice musicians.

She was a supporter of the relative solmization method.

Kotlyarevskaya summarized her pedagogical experience in a monograph based on lectures for students of Novosibirsk Musical College and children's music teachers from other cities of Russia.

Works

  • Сольфеджио для подготовительного, 1—6 кл. ДМШ
  • Приглашение к творчеству. Новосибирск, 1987
  • Промолчать не смогу... Затронуть струны детской души. Новосибирск: РНД, 2000
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