Fuat Shakirovich Mansurov

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Fuat Mansurov takes part in the laying of the wreath at the memorial on Ğabdulla Tuqay on October 3, 2007 in Almetyevsk , Tatarstan , Russia .

Fuat Mansurov ( Russian Мансуров, Фуат Шакирович , Tatar Фоат Шакир улы Мансуров Foat Şakir Uli Mansurov * 10. January 1928 in Alma-Ata , then USSR ; † 11. June 2010 in Moscow ) was a Soviet conductor .

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During his school days at a musical and technical school, Mansurow learned the cello for seven years . In 1950 he finished his studies at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the State University of Alma-Ata (Kazakh State University). In 1951 he obtained his musician diploma at the Kurmangazy Conservatory of Alma-Ata, now the Kazakh National Kurmangazy Conservatory. There he had studied in the Department of Opera and Symphonic Conducting in Professor Isidor Zak's class . Further studies as a postgraduate led Mansurow to Professor Leo Ginsberg at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow and to the internationally renowned conductor and music professor Igor Markevitch at the Conservatoire de Paris .

From 1953 to 1956 Mansurov was engaged as a conductor at the State Academic Theater of Opera and Ballet in Alma-Ata (Kazakh Abay Theater of Opera and Ballet), the former opera house of Alma-Ata. In 1957 he won first prize at the 6th World Youth Music Festival in Moscow. In 1958 he was awarded the title "Outstanding Artist of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic (SSR)" ("Honored Artist of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic"). In 1958 he became chief conductor of the newly founded State Radio Symphony Orchestra of the Kazakh People's Republic (Kazakh SSR State Symphony Orchestra). From 1963 to 1967 he was chief conductor of the State Academic Theater of Opera and Ballet (Kazakh Abay Theater of Opera and Ballet) in Alma-Ata. At the same time he directed the Opera and Symphony Orchestra of the Moscow Conservatory from 1963. From 1967 onwards, Mansurov conducted regularly in Kazan . From 1968 to 1970 he was chief conductor of the State Tatar Musa Dshalil Opera and Ballet Theater (Tatar Musa Djalil Academic State Theater of Opera and Ballet).

From 1969 onwards, Mansurov was a conductor at the Moscow Bolshoi Theater . There he conducted the opera premieres of Semjon Kotko by Sergei Prokofjew (1970), Il trovatore (1972), Russalka by Alexander Dargomyschski (1976), L'heure espagnole (1978) and several ballet premieres.

In 1971 he won first prize at the Herbert von Karajan Competition in West Berlin as a conductor with the orchestra of the Moscow Conservatory . In 1975 he received the title “People's Artist of the Republic of Tatarstan ”. Since 1989 he was chief conductor of the Tatar State Symphony Orchestra (Tartar State Symphony Orchestra). There he conducted several concert programs from 1991 to 1993, mainly symphony music. In 1994 he was awarded the Gabdullah Tukay Prize, the highest state prize in the Republic of Tatarstan, for his artistic merits .

Since 1980 Mansurov was a professor at the Moscow Conservatory, since 1986 also at the Kazan Conservatory. In his dissertation , Mansurow developed new methods for training and integrating young musicians into a symphony orchestra. In 1997 the Russian section of the International Council of Scientific Development elected Mansourow to the International Academy of Sciences. In 1998 he was appointed People's Artist of the Russian Federation. In 2004 he became an honorary member of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan. In 2005 he received the Order of Friendship .

repertoire

His repertoire as a conductor included: the operas The Barber of Seville , La damnation de Faust , Margarethe , Madama Butterfly , Mazeppa , A Midsummer Night's Dream , Carmen , Tosca , Jolanthe , Prince Igor , The Stone Guest by Alexander Dargomyschski, A Life for the Tsar , Dead Souls by Rodion Konstantinowitsch Shchedrin , The Queen of Spades , Iphigenie in Aulis and the ballets: Swan Lake , Spartacus by Aram Khachaturian , Don Quixote , Romeo and Juliet and The Fountain by Bakhchisarai by Boris Vladimirovich Assafiev .

Mansurow has also directed various opera and ballet productions abroad: Tosca , Eugen Onegin and Vincent von Einojuhani Rautavaara in Helsinki , Pique Dame in Buenos Aires , Istanbul and Ljubljana , Norma and La Bohème in Zagreb , A Life for the Tsar in Ljubljana and The Nutcracker in Helsinki, Sleeping Beauty in Zagreb, Swan Lake in Ljubljana and Romeo and Juliet at the Festival in Savonlinna . Mansurov has also made guest appearances in the USA , France , Brazil , South Korea , Greece , Germany , Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Australia .

Fuat Mansurow recorded numerous works, mainly Russian music, also for the record . His production of the opera Die Tsarenbraut by Nikolai Rimski-Korsakow from 1974 with Irina Archipowa , Galina Vishnevskaya , Vladimir Atlantov , Vladimir Valaitis and Evgeny Nesterenko is considered to be outstanding .

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SURNAME Mansurov, Fuat Shakirovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Мансуров, Фуат Шакирович (Russian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION soviet conductor
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Alma-Ata , then the USSR
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 2010
Place of death Moscow