Maria Chefaliady-Taban
Maria Chefaliady-Taban (4 November 186311 June 1932) was a Romanian pianist, music educator and composer. She was born in Iaşi and studied at the Iaşi Conservatory with Anetta Boscoff. She continued her studies from 1883-85 in Vienna with Joseph Dachs and Joseph Hellmesberger  at the Akademie fur Musik und Darstellende Kunst. After completing her studies, Chefaliady-Taban performed as a concert pianist and later became a singing teacher in Iasi and Bucharest. She died in Bucharest. Works
Chefaliady-Taban incorporated folk-lore into her compositions. Selected works include:
Hora carturarului Urechia (Scholar Urechia’s Ring Dance) choral work (1901)
Imnul studentilor universitari romani (Romanian Students’ Anthem) (1901) 
Atit de frageda (So Tender) (1900)
O, ramii (Oh, don’t Go) (1905)

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1863 births
1932 deaths
19th-century classical composers
20th-century classical composers
Musicians from Iași
Romanian classical composers
Romanian music educators
Romanian women educators
Romanian women composers
Voice teachers
Romanian women classical composers
Romanian women music educators
20th-century women composers
19th-century women composers
People from the United Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia