Gaigerova, Varvara Andrianovna

Barbara Gaigerova was born in 1903 in the village of Orekhovo (now Orekhovo-Zuyevo ) in a family of music teachers. Her father in 1901 organized a singing club for workers and employees of the Orekhovsky textile industry and led it for 35 years. Mother graduated from the Music and Drama School at the Moscow Philharmonic Society on the theory of music and worked to promote musical culture among the working people of the village ^[1] .

Varvara's musical education began at seven, and her first teacher was Vera Mikhailovna’s mother. At the age of 10, the young musician has already performed at public concerts. In 1914 she entered the junior courses of the Moscow Conservatory in the piano class, but in 1917 she had to stop classes due to the difficult living conditions during the imperialist and civil wars . From 1917 to 1922 she wrote 22 choral and solo songs, as well as romances to the poems of her favorite poet Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov ^[2] .

Later, Gaigerova resumed her studies at the Moscow Conservatory and graduated in 1928 in two specialties: piano (course by Gustav Neuhaus ) and composition (course by Nikolai Myaskovsky ) ^[1] .

• Lushnikova E.N. Elegy of the life of Varvara Gaigerova // Historical, philosophical, political and legal sciences, cultural studies and art history. Questions of theory and practice. - Tambov: Diploma, 2006. - Vol. 2 (64) . - pp . 100-102 . - ISSN 1997-292X .