Zlata Tkach
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Zlata Moiseyevna Tkach was a Moldovan composer and music educator. She was the first woman to become a professional composer in Moldova
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to Moisey Bentsionovich Beyrihman and his wife Freida Mendelevna Koifman. When Zlota was still a young child, the family moved to Chişinău
where she went to the Romanian primary school for girls and studied violin from her father.
During World War II, Zloty was evacuated with her mother to Central Asia, but was separated from her in transit and ended up in the city of Namangan
in Uzbekistan
, where there was typhus and typhoid fever. Zloty stayed in a Drogobycha
orphanage and went to secondary school. During this time, she composed her first song, "Sailors". In 1943 she was reunited with her family after the liberation of the city, and returned to Chişinău.
Zlota studied physics and mathematics at the University of Chişinău and then entered the Musicology Department of the Kishinev Conservatory, where she graduated in 1952. She studied composition from Leonid Gurov (1910–1993), and violin from I.L. Daylisa. From 1952 to 1962 she taught at a music school in Chişinău. In 1957 she continued her studies in the Conservatory's composition class, and after graduating in 1962 became a teacher there and continued to work at the Conservatory until the end of her life. In 1986 she became an Associate Professor, and in 1993 a full Professor of composition.
Tkach was honored as the first woman to become a professional composer in Moldova. She was the Honored Artist of the Moldavian SSR (1974), winner of State Prize of Moldova (1982), and Chevalier of the Order Gloria Muncii.
Zlata Tkach married the Moldovan musicologist Efim Markovich Tkach (1926–2003), who was an author and editor of books in Russian and Moldovan. She died in 2006 in Chişinău.
Moldova
Moldova , officially the Republic of Moldova is a landlocked state in Eastern Europe, located between Romania to the West and Ukraine to the North, East and South. It declared itself an independent state with the same boundaries as the preceding Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1991, as part...
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Biography
Zlota Beyrihman was born in the Bessarabian village of LozovoLozovo
Lozovo is a village in Republic of Macedonia. It is a seat of the Lozovo municipality....
to Moisey Bentsionovich Beyrihman and his wife Freida Mendelevna Koifman. When Zlota was still a young child, the family moved to Chişinău
Chisinau
Chișinău is the capital and largest municipality of Moldova. It is also its main industrial and commercial centre and is located in the middle of the country, on the river Bîc...
where she went to the Romanian primary school for girls and studied violin from her father.
During World War II, Zloty was evacuated with her mother to Central Asia, but was separated from her in transit and ended up in the city of Namangan
Namangan
Namangan is the third-largest city in Uzbekistan . It is the capital of Namangan Province, in the northern edge of Fergana Valley of north-eastern Uzbekistan.-Geography:...
in Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan , officially the Republic of Uzbekistan is a doubly landlocked country in Central Asia and one of the six independent Turkic states. It shares borders with Kazakhstan to the west and to the north, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to the east, and Afghanistan and Turkmenistan to the south....
, where there was typhus and typhoid fever. Zloty stayed in a Drogobycha
Drohobych
Drohobych is a city located at the confluence of the Tysmenytsia River and Seret, a tributary of the former, in the Lviv Oblast , in western Ukraine...
orphanage and went to secondary school. During this time, she composed her first song, "Sailors". In 1943 she was reunited with her family after the liberation of the city, and returned to Chişinău.
Zlota studied physics and mathematics at the University of Chişinău and then entered the Musicology Department of the Kishinev Conservatory, where she graduated in 1952. She studied composition from Leonid Gurov (1910–1993), and violin from I.L. Daylisa. From 1952 to 1962 she taught at a music school in Chişinău. In 1957 she continued her studies in the Conservatory's composition class, and after graduating in 1962 became a teacher there and continued to work at the Conservatory until the end of her life. In 1986 she became an Associate Professor, and in 1993 a full Professor of composition.
Tkach was honored as the first woman to become a professional composer in Moldova. She was the Honored Artist of the Moldavian SSR (1974), winner of State Prize of Moldova (1982), and Chevalier of the Order Gloria Muncii.
Zlata Tkach married the Moldovan musicologist Efim Markovich Tkach (1926–2003), who was an author and editor of books in Russian and Moldovan. She died in 2006 in Chişinău.
Works
Tkach composed about 800 works, including sonatas, string quartets, suites, vocal music, choral and instrumental loops, cantatas, opera, ballet, instrumental miniatures, children's songs, and music for drama, cinema and theater. Her successful children's opera "Goat with Three Kids" (Capra cu trei iezi; written 1966) was revised several times and finally reintroduced as "The Impostor Wolf" (Lupul impostor) in 1983. Compositions include:- "Dance". Chişinău: Map moldovenyaske, 1963.
- "Moldavian dance". Chişinău: Map moldovenyaske, 1965.
- "Sonata for Viola and Piano". Moscow: Soviet Composer, 1981.
- Unchiul meu din Paris opéra (1987)
- Leagăn de mohor' (35 piano miniatures). Chişinău, 1988.
- Dine guter nomen (name of his good, to Yiddish, with notes). A song cycle on poems by Chic Driesse. Chişinău: The League, 1996.
- Sholom Aleichem: the collection of vocal works. Chişinău: Pontos, 2001.
- Dos glekele (Bell, on poems by Jewish poets in Yiddish, with notes). Berlin, 2004.
- Flacăra iubirii (Flame of Love). Romances on poems by Agnes Rosca. Chişinău: Cartea Moldovei, 2006.