Nadiya Goldenberg

Nadiya Markovna Goldenberg was a Ukrainian and Russian pianist, music teacher, and composer. She was born in 1891 in the Kyiv region, near Kyiv, and received her education in Kyiv, where she attended a gymnasium and the music school of Volodymyr Pukhalsky.

In 1914 she graduated from the St. Petersburg Conservatory with the title of free artist-pianist and returned to Kyiv. She studied composition theory with Boleslav Yavorsky at the Kyiv Conservatory.

From 1919 to 1923, Goldenberg worked in Kyiv as a teacher, lecturer, pianist, and head of children's schools and schools for adults, including the People's Conservatory. Between 1919 and 1921 she worked in the mobile musical brigades of the Kyiv people's education system as a pianist, organizer, and leader of revolutionary celebrations in clubs and labor schools. She also directed club music studios and musical-choral groups.

From 1922 she was a lecturer and head of the seminar "New Theory of Music" based on Yavorsky's ideas, and also lectured at a theater technical school. From 1923 to 1927 she taught music theory at the Mykola Lysenko State Music and Drama Institute. Between 1925 and 1930 she served as director of the children's department of the First Professional Music School attached to the Kyiv Conservatory, while also leading piano and music education classes. Among her students was Rosa Tamarkina. From 1927 she taught at the Ivan Franko State Theater.

Goldenberg was the author of studies based on Yavorsky's theory, particularly in the field of the form of works by Bach, Beethoven, Schumann, and others. She also wrote her own compositions, including sonatas, preludes, symphonic fragments, romances, and children's operettas.

In 1930 she moved to Moscow, where she taught in music schools and at the conservatory. From 1931 to 1932 she taught methods of music education at the Moscow Conservatory and held the rank of associate professor. From 1932 to 1943 she led a piano class there. She also taught at the Anton Rubinstein Moscow Music School.

Goldenberg died in 1981 in Moscow. She was awarded the titles Honored Teacher of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and Honored Worker of Culture of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.

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