Maria Kotlyarevskaya-Kraft

Maria Alexeevna Kotlyarevskaya-Kraft (Мария Алексеевна Котляревская-Крафт; March 24, 1922 – August 28, 2012 ) 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.

Kotlyarevskaya-Kraft died on August 27, 2012 and was buried at the Zayeltsovskoye Cemetery.

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.

Works

 * Сольфеджио для подготовительного, 1—6 кл. ДМШ
 * Приглашение к творчеству. Новосибирск, 1987
 * Промолчать не смогу... Затронуть струны детской души. Новосибирск: РНД, 2000