Boris Emmanuilowitsch Chaikin
Boris Emmanuilovich Chaikin ( Russian Борис Эммануилович Хайкин ; international notation: Boris Khaikin ; born October 13 . Jul / 26. October 1904 . Greg in Minsk , then Russian Empire , now Belarus ; † 10. May 1978 in Moscow ) was a Soviet conductor . He is best known for his two highly acclaimed recordings of Mussorgsky's Khovanshchina (1946, with Mark Ossipowitsch Reisen ; 1972, with Irina Konstantinovna Archipowa ), but was also considered a brilliant exponent of Tchaikovsky's operas and ballets .
He studied in Moscow, where he conducted from 1928 to 1935 at the Nemirovich-Danchenko Theater, a department of the Moscow Art Theater . 1936–1943 he was artistic director of the Leningrad “Small Opera House”, then until 1953 chief conductor of the Kirov Theater . In 1954 he became a regular guest conductor of the Moscow Bolshoi Theater . In 1947, Chaikin was promoted to People's Artist of the RSFSR and in 1972 to People's Artist of the USSR .
source
- Horst Seeger : Opera Lexicon. Henschel, Berlin 1989
Web links
- Sound carrier by Boris Emmanuilowitsch Chaikin in the catalog of the German National Library
- photo
- Article Boris Emmanuilowitsch Chaikin in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)
- Biography , Krugosvet (Russian)
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| SURNAME | Chaikin, Boris Emmanuilowitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Хайкин, Борис Эммануилович (Russian); Khaikin, Boris (international spelling) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | soviet conductor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 26, 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Minsk |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 10, 1978 |
| Place of death | Moscow |