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== External links ==
== External links ==
* [http://www.imi.org.il/composerInfo.asp?num=153 Israel Music Institute biography, with photo]
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20060828111340/http://www.imi.org.il:80/composerInfo.asp?num=153 Israel Music Institute biography, with photo]
* [http://www.foxcooper.org/Fox%20Fam/Shlonsky/Shlonsky%20Introduction.html Another profile with different photo]
* [http://www.foxcooper.org/Fox%20Fam/Shlonsky/Shlonsky%20Introduction.html Another profile with different photo]
* [http://www.lamediatheque.be/travers_sons/fc_shlonsky.htm Femmes Compositrices profile (French)]
* [http://www.lamediatheque.be/travers_sons/fc_shlonsky.htm Femmes Compositrices profile (French)]

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Verdina Shlonsky, 1936

Verdina Shlonsky (Hebrew: וורדינה (רוזה) שלונסקי) (January 22, 1905, Kremenchuk, Russian Empire – February 20, 1990, Tel Aviv) was the first female Israeli composer, pianist, publicist and painter.

Biography

Verdina (Rosa) Shlonsky was born to a Hasidic Jewish family in the Russian Empire, the youngest of six children. (The Hebrew root of the name Verdina is וורד "vered" or "rose".)

The family immigrated to Palestine in 1921,[1] but she remained in Vienna to continue her music education. From there, she moved to Berlin, where she studied with pianists Egon Petri and Artur Schnabel. In Paris, she studied composition with Nadia Boulanger, Edgard Varèse and Max Deutsch. In 1925 she and her sister a successful opera singer Judith Shlonsky (Nina Valery), who had returned to Europe, married two brothers: Sigmund and Alexander Sternik. Both couples soon divorced.[2]

Upon settling in Palestine, she joined the faculty of the Tel Aviv Academy of Music. Among her noted compositions were "Hebrew Poem" (1931) and "Quartet for Strings", which won an award at the 1948 Béla Bartók Competition in Budapest.

She was the younger sister of poet Avraham Shlonsky, and older sister of the mezzo-soprano Nina Valery.

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