Irina Mikhaylovna Elcheva (Russian: Ирина Михайловна Ельчева; 28 November 1926 – 8 May 2013) was a Russian composer. She studied at Mussorgsky College and the Leningrad Conservatory. She collected folk songs and completed the opera Spartak in 1962.
Elcheva died in St. Petersburg on 8 May 2013, at the age of 86.[1]
References edit
- ^ "ЕЛЬЧЕВА, ИРИНА МИХАЙЛОВНА (1926–2013)". Conservatory.ru. Retrieved 7 December 2022.
- Sadie, Julie Anne; Samuel, Rhian (1994). The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers. ISBN 9780393034875. Retrieved 22 October 2010.
- McVicker, Mary (2016). Women Opera Composers: Biographies from the 1500s to the 21st Century. McFarland. p. 143. ISBN 9780786495139.
External links edit
- 500 Operas by Women, Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy
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