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Russian composer and music educator (1874-1967)
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2018-06-18 04:33:35
Marcello, Rozhdestvensky, Levine, 2018
June 18, 2018. Marcello, Rozhdestvensky, Levine. Benedetto Marcello, a gifted Italian composer of the late Baroque, was born on June 24th of 1686 in Brescia. We’d like to get to his interesting Requiem in the Venetian Manner, but for now we’ll direct you to our earlier entry about Benedetto and his brother Alessandro, as we have more urgent topics. First, some sad news: Gennady Rozhdestvensky, one of the best Soviet conductors, died on June 16th in Moscow. Rozhdestvensky was born on May 4th of 1931 into a musical family: his father was the noted conductor Nikolai Anosov, his mother – a singer, Natalia Rozhdestvenskaya. Gennady studied the piano with Elena Gnesina and Lev Oborin and, later, conducting with his father. He was only 20 when he found himself on the podium of the Bolshoi conducting Sleeping Beauty. From 1961 to 1974 Rozhdestvensky was the music director of the Moscow Radio […]
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