Lydia Auster

Internet Edition compiled by Onno van Rijen

Updated 3 April 2005

Born

30 May 1912 in Petropavlovsk, Kazakhstan. Died 3 April 1993 in Tallinn, Estonia

Education

She studied piano with L. Shtsherbakova and composition with M. Nevitov at the Omsk Music Technicum from 1927 until 1931. From 1931 until 1934 she studied composition with M. Judin at the Leningrad Conservatory. She graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in composition in Vissarion Shebalin's class in 1938. She finished her advanced studies there in 1945.

Works

"Aastaajad (Seasons)", song cycle to poems by Sergei Jessenin (1936)
LP Melodiya D 9553-4: (Autumn) V. Gurev (tenor)
String Quartet No. 1 (1937)

Symphonietta (1938)

String Quartet No. 2 (1939)

Four Russian Folk Songs for symphony orchestra (1940)

Three dances for piano (1940)

Three Turkmenistani dances for piano (1940)

Ballade-sonata for violin and piano (1941)

"Eestimaa (Estonia)", symphonic poem (1945)

Seven romances to the words of Mihhail Lermontov for voice and piano (1945)

String Quartet No. 3 "Mälestusi Turkmeeniast (Memoirs of Turkmenistan)" (1945)

Suite for two pianos (1947)

"Eesti süit (Estonian Suite)" for symphony orchestra (1948)

"Au Nõukogude Eestile (Ode to Soviet Estonia)", symphonic overture (1950)

"Kevadprelüüdid (Spring Preludes)" for piano (1950)

Piano Concerto in G major(1952)

LP Melodiya 33D 020577-78: Estonian Radio SO, Neemi Jarvi (cond), Heljo Sepp (piano)
LP Melodiya C10 08797: Estonian State SO, Neemi Jarvi (cond), Arbo Valdma (piano)
"Tiina", ballet (1955)
Libretto by Lydia Auster and Andres Särev after August Kitzberg's famous Estonian drama "Libahunt (Werewolf)"
LP Melodiya D 3926-7: (Fragments) Estonian State Orchestra, Raudsepp (cond)
LP Melodiya D 15719-20: (Monologue) Estonian State Orchestra, Raudsepp (cond)
LP Melodiya D 23563-4: (Two Pieces) A. Livontas (violin)
LP Melodiya C10 08797: (Excerpts) Estonian State Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi (cond)
"Põhjamaa unenägu (Northern Dream)", ballet for children (1960)
LP Melodiya D 9555-6: Estonian State Orchestra, V. Jarvi (cond)
"Muusikaline hetk (Musical Moment)" for symphony orchestra (1961)

Lyrical concertino for violin and symphony orchestra (1966)

"Romeo, Julia ja pimedus (Romeo, Julia and Darkness)", ballet (1970)

Libretto by Lydia Auster after J. Otchenashek's short story.
LP Melodiya C10 08797: (Excerpts) Estonian State Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi (cond)
"Maihommik (A Morning in May)", short opera. (1972)
Libretto by Lydia Auster after L. Ashkenazy' short story "A Blue Sparkle".
"Melodia" for string orchestra (1973)

"Rahuhommik (The Morning of Peace)", cantata for mixed choir, soloists and symphony orchestra (1975)

Text by Lydia Auster.
Eight Moods for piano (1979)

Four pieces for wind quintet (1983)

"Igavene tuli (Everlasting Fire)", cantata for soloists, mixed choir and symphony orchestra (1984)

Text by Lydia Auster.
"Bambi (Bambie)", ballet for children. Libretto by Epp Koger and Ülo Vilimaa after F. Salten's "Forest Fairytale" (1986)

Piano Concerto for the Young with chamber orchestra (1988)

Sonata for clarinet and piano (1988)

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