Anatoly Fistulari
Anatoli Fistulari (mostly in the French transliteration Anatole Fistoulari ; born August 20, 1907 in Kiev , Russian Empire , today Ukraine ; † August 21, 1995 in London ) was a classical conductor.
The son of the conductor Gregor Fistulari, who had studied with Nikolai Rimski-Korsakow and Anton Rubinstein , learned from his father and made his orchestral debut himself at the age of seven with Tchaikovsky's Pathetique . After the Russian Revolution , he moved to Germany in 1921 and then to France in 1924, which is where the French transliteration of the name can be traced back to. In 1933 Fistulari became the conductor of Chaliapin's Grand Opéra Russe in Paris . In 1938 he moved to Léonide Massines Ballets Russes , with whom he toured Europe and America. In the 1943/44 season he was chief conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra , a contract that, with 120 concerts, could hardly be fulfilled for a young conductor and was never renewed. In 1954 he was again a ballet conductor at the Royal Ballet . Fistulari also took British citizenship in 1948.
He was married to Anna Mahler in the first of two marriages , with whom he had the daughter Marina.
In the 1940s to early 1970s, Fistulari made numerous recordings, especially of ballets, for example Swan Lake (three times), Sleeping Beauty , Gajaneh, Giselle and Sylvia . Fistulari was also in demand as an accompanist in solo concerts due to his flexibility, for example by Earl Wild ( 1st Tchaikovsky piano concerto ), Vladimir Ashkenazy ( 3rd Rachmaninov piano concerto ), Shura Cherkassky ( 1st Liszt piano concerto ), Wilhelm Kempff (Liszt- Piano concerts), Julius Katchen ( 2nd Rachmaninov piano concerto ), Clifford Curzon ( Grieg piano concerto ), Nathan Milstein ( Brahms violin concerto ) or Ruggiero Ricci ( Chatschaturjan violin concerto ).
Web links
- John Amis: OBITUARY: Anatole Fistoulari , obituary, In: The Independent of August 22, 1995, as of July 24, 2014 (English)
- Anatole Fistoulari, Conductor, 88, Dies , obituary, In: The New York Times, August 25, 1995, viewed July 24, 2014
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Fistulari, Anatoli |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fistoulari, Anatole |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British conductor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 20, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kiev |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 21, 1995 |
| Place of death | London |