Hugo Warlich

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Hugo Iwanowitsch Warlich ( Russian Гуго Иванович Варлих , maiden name Hugo Johann Christian Andreas Wahrlich ; * 1856 in Cassel ; † January 23, 1922 in Petrograd ) was a conductor of German-Bohemian origin who emigrated to Russia .

Hugo Warlich was of Bohemian descent, but had lived in Russia since the 1870s, where he played as a violist in quartets and was also active as a conductor from the early 1880s. From 1888 he directed, among other things, the Symphonic Court Orchestra in St. Petersburg . In 1909 he was the conductor of the Russian premiere of Alexander Scriabin's Le Poème de l'Extase .

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