Irina Elcheva
{{short description|Russian composer (1926–2013)}}
Irina Mikhaylovna Elcheva ({{langx|ru|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.{{cite web |title=ЕЛЬЧЕВА, ИРИНА МИХАЙЛОВНА (1926–2013) |url=https://www.conservatory.ru/esweb/elcheva-irina-mikhaylovna-1926-2013 |website=Conservatory.ru |access-date=7 December 2022}}
References
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- {{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IvoQQU1QL_QC&q=Irina+Elcheva+music&pg=PR17|title=The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers|first1=Julie Anne|last1=Sadie|first2=Rhian|last2=Samuel|year=1994|isbn=9780393034875|access-date=22 October 2010}}
- {{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_ZnPDAAAQBAJ&q=Irina+Mikhaylovna+Elcheva&pg=PA143 |title=Women Opera Composers: Biographies from the 1500s to the 21st Century |last=McVicker |first=Mary |publisher=McFarland |year=2016 |page=143|isbn=9780786495139 }}
External links
- [https://www.wophil.org/500ops/ 500 Operas by Women], Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy
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