Vladimir Romanovich Bakaleinikoff

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Vladimir Romanovich Bakaleinikoff (Владимир Романович Бакалейников, Vladimir Romanovich Bakaleinikow; born September 21 . Jul / 3. October  1885 greg. In Moscow , † 5. November 1953 in Pittsburgh ) was an American violist , conductor and composer of Russian origin.

The son of the clarinetist Roman Bakaleinikoff came to the United States with his wife in 1926. The following year he became principal violist and assistant to conductor Fritz Reiner with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra . From 1938 he was the conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra , where he became the first teacher of Lorin Maazel . He published the textbook Elementary Rules of Conducting for Orchestra, Band and Chorus in 1938 and memoirs in 1943 under the title Записки музыканта ( Notes of a Musician ). As a composer, he mainly emerged with chamber music . His brothers Nikolai , Michail (Mischa) and Constantin were also known as composers.

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