Background
Gnesina, Elena was born on May 30, 1874 in Rostov-on-Don.
Gnesina, Elena was born on May 30, 1874 in Rostov-on-Don.
Pupil of V. Safonov.
Founder and director of the Gnesin Music School, 1895, and the Pedagogical Institute of Music, Moscow, 1944. Her sisters, Eugenia, Maria and Olga, and her brother Mikhail were also famous musicians. Her memoirs were published in Sovetskaia Muzyka, No.
5, Moscow, 1964.