Elizabeth Gilels
| Elizabeth Gilels | |
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| Birth name | Yelizaveta Grigoryevna Gilels |
| Born | September 30, 1919 Odessa, Ukraine, USSR
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| Died | March 13, 2008 (age 88) Moscow, Russia
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| Genres | Classical |
| Occupation(s) | Violinist, Pedagogue |
| Instruments | Violin |
| Years active | 1935–2008 |
| Labels | Melodya |
Elizabeth Gilels (Elizaveta/Yelizaveta Gilels) (September 30, 1919 – March 13, 2008) was a Soviet violinist and a professor.
Elizabeth Gilels was born in Odessa into a Jewish family. Her father Grigory Gilels was a clerk at the sugar refinery, and her mother Esfira Gilels was a housewife. Elizabeth had multiple siblings, including children from previous marriages by both of her parents. Despite not being directly connected to a music scene, the family produced two outstanding musicians: first Emil Gilels and three years later Elizabeth herself.
"In Odessa, in spite of the hard times, the public enjoyed music very much. All attention was given to musically gifted children. In a modest Gilels’s flat in a poor and famous district of Odessa called Moldavanka there was a grand piano and already at the age of two little Emil showed interest in it touching keys and listening to them. He was also interested in other sounds: performance of brass bands, singing, tolling of bells." Little Yelizaveta, consequently was surrounded by music at an early age.
Elizabeth commenced her violin studies with famous pedagogue, Pyotr Stolyarsky whose star pupils included David Oistrakh, Nathan Milstein and Boris Goldstein. Later she studied with Abram Yampolsky (1890–1956) in Moscow. Early on in her career, she’d formed a youthful duo with her brother.
In 1937 she became a prizewinner of the Ysaÿe competition (later becoming Queen Elizabeth Competition) in Brussels. Stolyarsky's students caused a sensation at this competition as top prizes were garnered by David Oistrakh, Boris Goldshtein (Goldstein), Yelizaveta (Elizabeth) Gilels and Mikhail Fikhtengoltz.
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