Maria Alexeevna Kotlyarevskaya-Kraft () was a Soviet and Russian musicologist, pedagogue, enlightener and .
Biography
The musician was born on March 24, 1922, in Vitebsk (modern Belarus). Her father A. F. Shtein was a hereditary musician and one of the founders of musical education in Novosibirsk and her mother T. M. Kotlyarevskaya was a pianist.
In 1952, she graduated from the Tashkent Conservatory.
Pedagogical activity
Kotlyarevskaya-Kraft was a teacher of music theory and solfeggio at the Children's Music School No. 1 (Novosibirsk) and Novosibirsk Musical College.
Her methodology has become the educational basis for more than one generation of novice musicians.
She was a supporter of the relative solmization method.
Kotlyarevskaya summarized her pedagogical experience in a monograph based on lectures for students of Novosibirsk Musical College and children's music teachers from other cities of Russia.