Michail Rafailowitsch Rauchwerger

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Mikhail Rafailowitsch Rauchwerger ( Russian Михаил Рафаилович Раухвергер * November 21 . Jul / 4. December  1901 greg. In Odessa , † 1989 ) was a Russian composer.

Life

Rauchwerger studied at the Moscow Conservatory with Felix Blumenfeld and worked there from 1930 to 1941 as a piano teacher. After that he lived as a freelance composer. He composed several operas and ballets, a symphony and a symphonic suite, a cello concerto, three string quartets, piano pieces, more than four hundred choral works and songs as well as music for plays and films.

literature

  • Alfred Baumgartner: "Propylaea World of Music: The Composers", Volume 4, Berlin, Frankfurt 1989, ISBN 354907834X , p. 438

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