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Braun Dora Germanovna (1893-1973)

Personal data
SurnameBraun
NameDora
PatronymGermanovna
Birth year1893
Birth month6
Birth day23
Birth placeŁódź
Death year1973
Death placeRiga
SexF

Braun (née Litvin) Dora (Deborah-Esther) Germanovna (also Grigoryevna or Khaimovna) (born 23 June 1893, Łódź, Poland – died 1973, Riga) – pianist and educator.

From 1903 to 1910, Dora Braun studied at a gymnasium in Łódź. In 1916, she graduated from the Saint Petersburg Conservatoire, where she studied piano under Professor Rozanova. Between 1921 and 1924, she taught at the Jewish People’s Conservatoire, where her pupils included Mikhail Alexandrovich.

From 1924 to 1940, Dora Braun ran her own piano studio in Riga. In 1940–41, she taught at the Riga People’s Conservatoire. During the wartime years of 1941–43, she worked in Novosibirsk, and from 1943 to 1945, at a music school in Ivanovo.

Between 1945 and 1950, Braun was a piano teacher at both the Latvian Conservatoire and the Emīls Dārziņš Music School (special piano class). From 1945 to 1947, she served as deputy head of the music school, where one of her pupils was Mikhail Feigin.

Her children, I. Braun and G. Braun, also became professional musicians.