Arvīds Jansons

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Arvīd (s) Jansons (born October 10, 1914 in Liepāja , Russian Empire ; † November 21, 1984 in Manchester ) was a Latvian conductor in the Soviet Union .

Life

Arvids Jansons studied violin at the Conservatory in Liepāja from 1929 to 1935. He then worked as a violinist at the Latvian National Opera in Riga , among others under guest conductors Erich Kleiber and Leo Blech, and studied composition at the Riga Conservatory and conducting with Blech when he had to emigrate from Germany. During the German occupation of Latvia from 1941 on, his son Mariss Jansons was born on January 14, 1943 . The family members of his Jewish wife Iraida, who was a singer at the National Opera, were locked up in the Riga ghetto and murdered by the Germans and their Latvian helpers .

After Latvia was again occupied by the Soviet Union , Jansons became conductor of the Riga Opera in 1944. In 1946 he received his first state award. He tried to stay out of politics and, like his son, avoided party membership in the CPSU . From 1947 to 1952 he was also conductor of the Latvian Radio Orchestra.

In 1952 he received an assistant position with the Leningrad Philharmonic under their chief conductor Yevgeny Maravinsky and also worked with Kurt Sanderling . His family moved in 1956. They all had to improve their Russian skills first. In addition to the classic, popular repertoire, Jansons also conducted unknown composers and recorded them on recordings, including Hilding Rosenberg , Finn Arnestad , Andrei Petrow , Juri Schaporin and Dmitri Kabalewski .

Janson's grave site in St. Petersburg

At the Leningrad Conservatory he represented opera and symphony orchestral conducting.

Jansons was a guest conductor in Tokyo in 1958, was a guest in Australia and in 1965 became a guest conductor with the Hallé Orchestra in England, with which he performed regularly in the following years. At one such concert in Manchester in 1984 he suffered a heart attack, of which he died a few days later. His ashes were buried in Leningrad in the Volkovo Cemetery.

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literature

  • Arnolds Klotiņš: Lemma Jansons, Arvīds , in: Oxford Music Online, Oxford: Oxford University Press
  • Alexsei V. Vulʹfson: Arvid Jansons. Vospominanija o čeloveke i muzykante . Saint-Petersburg: Izdat. Kompozitor, 1994.
  • Inga Reča: Jansonu dzimta. Arvīds, Iraīda, Mariss, Ilona . Likten̦stāsti, Riga 1999, ISBN 9984-611-38-8 .

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Christian Krügel, Egbert Tholl: "Half similar, half different": Interview with Mariss Jansons on the 100th birthday of Arvid Jansons. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , October 11, 2014, p. 41
personal data
SURNAME Jansons, Arvīds
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jansons, Arvid
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Latvian conductor
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Liepāja , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH November 21, 1984
Place of death Manchester