Nikolai Andreevich Malko

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Nikolai Andreyevich Malko ( Ukrainian Микола Малько , Russian Николай Андреевич Малько ; born April 22 ^{. Jul} / 4. May  1883 ^greg. In Brailow , Podolia Governorate , Russian Empire ; † 23. June 1961 in Sydney , Australia ) was a Ukrainian conductor .

Life

In his youth, Malko published music reviews in the Russian press and performed as a pianist and later as a conductor. In 1906 he completed his history and language studies at the St. Petersburg University and in 1909 his studies at the St. Petersburg Conservatory . His teachers were Nikolai Rimski-Korsakow , Alexander Glasunow , Anatoli Lyadow and Nikolai Tscherepnin . In 1909 he became conductor at the Mariinsky Theater and six years later even chief conductor. From 1909 he studied conducting with Felix Mottl in Munich . In 1918 he became director of the Conservatory in Vitebsk and in 1921 he taught at the Moscow Conservatory . He became conductor of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic in 1926 and in the same year he conducted the premieres of Shostakovich's First Symphony and the Second Symphony in 1927. He also conducted the world premiere of Nikolai Myaskovsky's Fifth Symphony , the ninth symphony was dedicated by the composer Malko.

In 1928 he left during a concert tour to the West. He lived in Vienna , Prague and from 1930 to 1956 in Copenhagen , where he helped set up the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra and had the title of permanent guest conductor.

He moved to the USA in 1940, where he also gave conducting lessons. His conducting techniques have been documented and published in The Conductor and his Baton (1950). A conducting handbook currently available in the US (Elizabeth AH Green: The Modern Conductor, 1996) is explicitly based on the principles of Malko's book. He has recorded many works with EMI in Copenhagen and with the Philharmonia Orchestra , mostly Russian repertoire. In 1951 he conducted the world premiere of Vagn Holmboe's Seventh Symphony with the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra.

In 1956 he moved to Australia and became chief conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra . He held this position until his death.

The Nikolai Malko competition named after him has been held in Copenhagen for young conductors since 1965 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Arthur Jacobs:  Malko, Nikolai (Andreyevich). In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
2. ↑ Reference for Malko's 1920 Premiere of Myaskovsky's 5th Symphony . Retrieved January 12, 2007.
3. ↑ Paul Rapoport: The compositions of Vagn Holmboe: a catalog of works and recordings with indexes of persons and titles . Copenhagen: Edition W. Hansen, 1996, ISBN 87-598-0813-6 , p. 46.
4. ^ Nicolai Malko Competition

Web links

• Biography of Nikolai Malko ( Memento from February 16, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
• Biographical and discograph. Information (English)

literature

• Arthur Jacobs:  Malko, Nikolai (Andreyevich). In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
• Elizabeth AH Green, Mark Gibson: The modern conductor. A college text on conducting based on the technical principles of Nicolai Malko as set forth in his "The conductor and his baton" . 7th edition. Pearson Prentice Hall , Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 2004, ISBN 978-0-13-182656-4 (English, 252 pages).
• Nicolai Malko: The conductor and his baton . Wilhelm Hansen, Copenhagen 1950 (English, 280 pp.).