Ilya Alexandrovich Mussin

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Ilya Alexandrovich Musin ( Russian Илья Александрович Мусин * December 24, 1903 . Jul / 6. January  1904 greg. In Kostroma , Russian Empire ; † 6. June 1999 in St. Petersburg , Russia ) was a Russian conductor , university teachers and theorists in the art of conducting.

Life

Mussin first studied piano , then until his graduation in 1930 conducting with Nikolai Malko and Alexander Gauk . In 1934 he became Fritz Stiedry's assistant with the Leningrad Philharmonic . In 1937 he was appointed conductor of the State Orchestra of the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic in Minsk . Since he refused to join the Communist Party of the Soviet Union , his career as a conductor was curtailed for a time. Therefore, he turned to teaching and founded the so-called Leningrad Orchestra Conducting School . During the Second World War , he stayed in the capital of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic , Tashkent , from 1941 to 1945 . There he conducted, for example, on the first anniversary of the German invasion of the Soviet Union , on June 22, 1942, a performance of the 7th Symphony by Dmitri Shostakovich . As a conductor, he made his first appearance outside Russia in 1996 in London with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra .

Activity as a teacher

Since 1932, Mussin taught conducting at the St. Petersburg Conservatory , then the Leningrad Conservatory, and from 1961 as a professor. He has represented his style of conducting in several books and has taught a large number of famous young conductors. These include, among many other Rudolf Barshai , Semyon Bychkov , Yakov Kreizberg , Tugan Sochijew , Odysseas Dimitriadis , Sian Edwards , Martyn Brabbins , Alexander Walker , Yuri Temirkanov , Valery Gergiev , Ennio Nicotra , Leonid Kortschmar , Oleg Zverev , Oliver Neither and Teodor Currentzis .

Awards and honors

Publications

  • 1967: The technique of conducting (in Russian). Muzika Publishing House, Leningrad.
  • 2006: The language of the conductor's gestures (in Russian: Jazyk dirizheskogo zhesta). Muzika Publishing House, Moscow, ISBN 5-714011937 .
  • 2014: The Techniques of Orchestral Conducting . Mellen Press, Lewiston 2014, ISBN 978-0-7734-0051-1 (English).

literature

  • Ennio Nicotra: Introduction to the Orchestral Conducting Technique in Accordance with the Orchestral Conducting School of Ilya Musin , book plus CD, in English, Italian, German and Spanish. Edizioni Curci, Milan 2007.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Mussin, Ilja Alexandrowitsch in: Bolschaja rossijskaja enziklopedija (Russian)
  2. ^ A b Ilya Musin, Russian Conductor and Mentor, Dies at 95. In: The New York Times . June 14, 1999, accessed April 29, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Mussin, Ilya Alexandrovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Мусин, Илья Александрович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian conductor, university professor and theorist of the art of conducting
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Kostroma , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH June 6, 1999
Place of death Saint Petersburg , Russian Federation