Yekaterina Sinyavina

Yekaterina Alexeyevna Sinyavina (died 1784) was a Russian composer and pianist. A cembalo concerto by Giovanni Paisiello was probably first performed at the court of Catherine II in 1781 with Sinyavina as soloist. She served as a lady-in-waiting and composer at the court, married Count Simon Romanovich Vorontsov and died in St. Petersburg.^[1]^[2]

References

^ Sadie, Julie Anne; Samuel, Rhian (1994) (Digitized online by GoogleBooks). The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers. http://books.google.com/books?id=IvoQQU1QL_QC&pg=PA425&dq=Yekaterina+Alexeyevna+Sinyavina&hl=en&ei=cmDrTJXgDMP-8AbMgK2iAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&sqi=2&ved=0CCUQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Yekaterina%20Alexeyevna%20Sinyavina&f=false. Retrieved 22 November 2010.
^ Ritzarev, Marina (2001). Eighteenth-century Russian music.

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Name	Sinyavina, Yekterina
Alternative names
Short description	Composer and pianist
Date of birth
Place of birth
Date of death	1784
Place of death	St. Petersburg, Russia