MARCELLE DE MANZIARLY - UKRAINE
BORN 13 OCTOBER
Source: Wikipedia
Marcelle de Manziarly (13 October 1899 in Kharkiv, Ukraine, then in Russian Empire – 12 May 1989) was a French pianist, music educator, conductor and composer. She was born in Kharkiv, studied in Paris with Nadia Boulanger and at the age of 23 had already composed two mature works. She later studied conducting with Felix Weingartner in Basle and piano with Isabelle Vengerova in New York City and taught and performed in Europe and the United States. Aaron Copland dedicated his song "Heart, We Will Forget Him" to her. She died in Ojai, California.
Selected works include: Six Etudes (pour Piano); Trois Images Slaves; Impressions de Mer; Sonate pour Notre-Dame de Paris for orchestra; Sonata for two pianos; Musique pour orchestre; Trilogue; and others.
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Trio 1952 by Marcelle de Manziarly
MARGARITA IVANOVNA KUSS - RUSSIA
BORN 13 OCTOBER
BORN 13 OCTOBER
Margarita Ivanovna Kuss was born in Ryazan, located on the Oka River around 200 km southeast of Moscow, on October 13, 1921. From early childhood she lived in Moscow. Her father, Johannes (Ivan) Petrovich Kuss, was from a German- Estonian family. He was employed in economic and planning work. As a German, he was exiled from Moscow in the years prior to the Second World War and subsequently rehabilitated in the middle of the 1950’s. Her mother, Mariya Fedorovna Kuss, a daughter of an Orthodox priest, was a teacher of music.
Her works include symphonic compositions, vocal music, chamber-instrumental works and orchestrated selections for Russian folk instruments. Her compositions were performed in the Grand and Small Halls of the Moscow Conservatory, at the concerts of Congresses of the Union of Composers, the annual international festival “Moscow Autumn”, in radio and television broadcasts and were heard in many countries, including Germany, Hungary, Yugoslavia, the USA, Australia, Switzerland, Finland, Spain, Austria (Grosser Musikvereinssaal ), Holland, Czechoslovakia and others.
In 1991 she was awarded the title “Honoured Art Worker of the RSFSR” (Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic).
Spirituality and music for Margarita Ivanovna Kuss were the most important. She never strove to acquire necessary acquaintances, enhance her position and promote herself. Works of Margarita Ivanovna Kuss absorbed her thoughts, feelings and experience.
She completely devoted herself to music and continued to work hard to the last years of her life.
Source: Margarita Kuss Official Website
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