Samuil Abramowitsch Samossud
Samuil Abramovich Samossud ( Russian Самуил Абрамович Самосуд ., Scientific transliteration Samuil Abramovich Samosud ; born May 2 . Jul / 14. May 1884 greg. In Tbilisi ; † 6. November 1964 in Moscow ) was a Russian conductor .
He began his career as a cellist before taking over the management of the Mariinsky Theater in Petrograd in 1917 . From 1918 to 1936 he directed the Maly Theater in the same city that was now called Leningrad . In 1936 he became music director at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow . There he founded an orchestra, from which the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra emerged in 1951.
He brought several important works by Shostakovich to the premiere , including the operas The Nose (after a story by Gogol ), Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk and the Leningrad Symphony and Prokofiev's opera War and Peace (after the novel by Tolstoy ).
In 1937 he was honored as a People's Artist of the USSR . He received the Stalin Prize three times (1941, 1947, 1952).
Web links
- Sound carrier by Samuil Abramowitsch Samossud in the catalog of the German National Library
- Biography on belcanto.ru (Russian)
- Biography ( memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (Russian)
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| SURNAME | Samossud, Samuil Abramowitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Самосуд, Самуил Абрамович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian conductor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 14, 1884 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tbilisi , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 6, 1964 |
| Place of death | Moscow , Soviet Union |