Oleg Moisseyevich Kagan

Oleg Moissejewitsch Kagan ( Russian Олег Моисеевич Каган ; born November 22, 1946 in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk ; † July 15, 1990 in Munich ) was a Russian violin virtuoso .

Oleg Kagan was one of the most famous Russian violinists of the 20th century, the generation after David Oistrach and Eduard Grach .

From the age of 7 he first studied at the Riga Latvian State Conservatory with Joachim Braun . In 1959 he switched to the Central Music School in Moscow , where he continued his studies with David Oistrach, among others . He became David Oistrach's favorite pupil, with whom he soon became a friend. He soon won numerous prizes: 4th at the Enescu Competition in Bucharest in 1964, 1st at the International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition in Helsinki in 1965, 2nd at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1966 and at the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in Leipzig 1968 1st prize.

He was married to the cellist Natalja Gutmann , with whom he often performed together. Since 1969 Svyatoslaw Richter was Oleg Kagan's regular chamber music partner. He and his wife founded a music festival in Wildbad Kreuth in 1990 , which was renamed the International Oleg Kagan Music Festival in his honor after his death .

In 1990 Alfred Schnittke dedicated the composition Madrigal in memoriam Oleg Kagan for violoncello (or violin) solo to his memory .

literature

Alain Pâris : Lexicon of Classical Music Performers in the 20th Century. DTV, Munich / Kassel 1992, ISBN 3-423-03291-X .
Harald Eggebrecht : Great violinists. Piper, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-492-04264-3 .
Albrecht Roeseler: Great violinists of our century. Piper, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-492-03063-7 .

personal data
SURNAME	Kagan, Oleg Moisseyevich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Каган, Олег Моисеевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Russian violin virtuoso
DATE OF BIRTH	November 22, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH	Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
DATE OF DEATH	July 15, 1990
Place of death	Munich