Nina Vladimirovna Makarova was the wife of composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

 Aram Khachaturian

Aram Khachaturian

Aram Ilyich Khachaturian was a prominent Soviet composer. Khachaturian's works were often influenced by classical Russian music and Armenian folk music...

 and a composer in her own right who had great interest in Russia

Russia

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n and Mari folksongs. She co-composed several pieces with her husband, including the Music to M. Aliger's Play "A Tale of Truth" (1947) and Music to Yu. Chepurin's Play "Spring Stream" (1953). She studied under Nikolai Myaskovsky

Nikolai Myaskovsky

Nikolai Yakovlevich Myaskovsky was a Russian and Soviet composer. He is sometimes referred to as the "father of the Soviet symphony".-Early years and first important works:...

, like her husband. She conducted her Symphony in Moscow on 12 June 1947. She had a son, Karen, who is currently known as an art critic. Her nickname was "Gayane" (Гаянэ)

Works

• Two Melodies for oboe and piano
• Piano Sonatina (1933)
• Violin Sonata (1934)
• Two Melodies for violin and piano
• Symphony in D minor (1938)

Revised in 1962. CD Russian Disc RDCD 11382: USSR SO, O. Koch (cond)

• Six Etudes for piano (1938)
• "Cantata for Molotov" for soloists, chorus and orchestra (1940)
• Song Cycle after Pushkin
  Aleksandr Pushkin
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• Song Cycle after Rustaveli
  Rustaveli
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• Children Song dedicated to Stalin
  Joseph Stalin
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• Music to the Play "A Tale of Truth" after M. Aliger

Composed jointly with Aram Khachaturian. First Performance: 1947, Moscow, Central Theater of the Red Army. Producer: A. Okunchikov. Designer: N. Shifrin.

• Music to the Film "The Change of Luck"
• Music to the Film "In the Country of the Dolls"
• Song cycle "In the Days of War"
• "Courage", opera in one act (1948)

Unfinished.

• Music to the Play "Spring Stream" after Yu. Chepurin

Composed jointly with Aram Khachaturian. First Performance: 18 November 1953, Moscow, Central Theater of the Soviet Army. Directors: A. Popov and A. Okunchikov. Designer: Yu. Pimenov.

• "Zoja", opera (1963)
• Fresco "Nefertiti's Procession" for harp

Dedicated to Vera Dulova.

• Waltz for harp

Written for Vera Dulova.