Eta Tyrmand

Eta Moiseyevna Tyrmand (Belarusian: Эта Майсееўна Ты́рманд, romanized: Eta Majsiejeŭna Tyrmand; Russian: Эта Моисеевна Тырманд; February 23, 1917 – April 29, 2008[1][2][3]) was a Belarusian composer.

She located in Minsk in 1939, and during World War II lived in Frunze.

She taught for nearly 40 years at the Belarusian State Conservatory where she trained several generations of highly accomplished musicians.

[3] As a composer, Tyrmand worked mainly in chamber and choral music.

She composed piano sonatas, works for violin and viola, instrumental miniatures, choral pieces and song cycles with text by Maksim Bahdanovič (1891-1917), Federico García Lorca (1898-1936) and others.