Maria Chefaliady-Taban

Maria Chefaliady-Taban (4 November 186311 June 1932) was a Romanian pianist, music educator and composer. She was born in Iaşi and studied at the Iaşi Conservatory with Anetta Boscoff. She continued her studies from 1883-85 in Vienna with Joseph Dachs and Joseph Hellmesberger at the Akademie fur Musik und Darstellende Kunst.

After completing her studies, Chefaliady-Taban performed as a concert pianist and later became a singing teacher in Iasi and Bucharest. She died in Bucharest.

Works

Chefaliady-Taban incorporated folk-lore into her compositions. Selected works include: Hora carturarului Urechia (Scholar Urechia’s Ring Dance) choral work (1901) Imnul studentilor universitari romani (Romanian Students’ Anthem) (1901) Atit de frageda (So Tender) (1900) O, ramii (Oh, don’t Go) (1905)

References

1863 births

1932 deaths

19th-century classical composers

20th-century classical composers

Musicians from Iași

Romanian classical composers

Romanian music educators

Romanian women educators

Romanian women composers

Voice teachers

Romanian women classical composers

Romanian women music educators

20th-century women composers

19th-century women composers

People from the United Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia