Natan Rachlin

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Rachlin Festival 2014 in Kazan under a portrait of the conductor

Natan Rachlin Hryhorowytsch ( Ukrainian Натан Григорович Рахлін or Russian Натан Григорьевич Рахлин / Natan Rachlin Grigorjewitsch * December 28, 1905 . Jul / 10. January  1906 greg. In Snowsk in Chernigov , † 28 June 1979 in Kazan ) was a Ukrainian conductor .

Rachlin first studied trumpet and violin at the Kiev Conservatory as well as conducting and conducting at the Music and Theater Institute . a. with Valerian Bierdiajew . In Leningrad he then studied orchestral conducting with Maximilian Steinberg . From 1937 to 1941 and from 1946 to 1962 he directed the Ukrainian State Orchestra , in between 1941 to 1945 the State Symphony Orchestra of the USSR . In 1966 he became chief conductor of the TASSR State Symphony Orchestra in Kazan .

In 1957 he conducted the world premiere of the 11th Symphony by Dmitri Shostakovich . It is part of Rachlin's tragedy that he was one of the outstanding Soviet conductors of his time, but was never given a really significant assignment.

Web links

Commons : Natan Rakhlin  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Article Natan Rachlin in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)http: //vorlage_gse.test/1%3D095732~2a%3DNatan%20Rachlin~2b%3DNatan%20Rachlin