Life

Zhanna Vasil'yevna Pliyeva was born in Tskhinvali

Tskhinvali

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, Southern Ossetia

Ossetia

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. She studied music at the Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory

Saint Petersburg Conservatory

The N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg State Conservatory is a music school in Saint Petersburg. In 2004, the conservatory had around 275 faculty members and 1,400 students.-History:...

, Leningrad

Leningrad

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, with D. Svetozarov for piano and with Orest Yevlakhov and A. Mnatsakanian for composition. In 1979 she worked as an assistant to Sergey Slonimsky, and later as an orchestra musician, researcher, teacher, and from 1979-85 as director of the Tskhinvali School of Music. After 1990 she became a full-time composer.

Honors and awards

• Prize-winner in the All-Union Composers 'Competition in 1977
• Prize-winner in the Tokyo
  Tokyo
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   International Composers' Competition, 1993
• Honoured Artist of Republic of Northern Ossetia-Alania, 1993
• President of the Presidium of the Georgian
  Georgia (country)
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   Music Society, 1989-90

Works

Pliyev's works are often based on the folklore of the Mountain People of the northern Caucasus

Caucasus

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. She has composed for stage, orchestra, and choral, instrumental and vocal solo performance. Selected works include:

• Deti solntse [Children of the Sun] (children's opera, 2, G. Dzugayev), 1981
• Fatima (ballet), 1982-4
• Strasti po? Damu [The Passion of Adam] (passion play, 2) , 1993
• Symphony no.1, S, perc, str
• Symphony no.2, 1976
• Symphony no.3, 1978
• Symphony no.4, 1990–91
• Symphony no.5, 1994
• Muzika dlya strunnïkh [Music for Strings], 1996
• O Rodine [About My Homeland] (G. Dzugayev), chorus, pf, 1979 *Shutochnaya [Comic Song], 1979
• Solovey poyot [A Nightingale Sings], female vv, 1979
• Sospeso (nyedoskazannoye) [Sospeso (understated )], female vv, 2 prep pfs
• Chenena (trans.), genre scene, 1987
• Slïshu Umolklo ... [I'm Listening ... It's Gone Quiet ...] (trad.), 4 choruses for Children
• Prelyudii for piano 1970-72
• Poem, Tokkata, for piano 5 sarkazmov, 4 fugov, 1963–75
• Minatyurï, for children, 1978,
• Ritual'nïy [Ritual], 1978
• Trezvuchiya [Triads] for piano, 1978
• Tokkatina, for piano, 1979
• Puteshestviye zoopark [A Trip to the Zoo], for Children, piano, 1980
• Sonatas for piano: 1982, 1984, 1990, 1995
• Iz osetinskogo? Poses [From Ossetian Epos] (trad.), song cycle, S, T, pf, 1977
• Monolog Tsezarya [Caesar's Monologue] (G. Bestauti), 1988
• Osennïye gryozï [Autumn Reveries] (L. Kotsta), S, pf, 1989