Aleksandr Gauk

Aleksandr Gauk

Aleksandr Vassilievich Gauk (OldStyleDate|15 August|1893|3 August - 30 March, 1963) was a Russian/Soviet conductor and composer.From 1930 to 1934, he was chief conductor of the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra. On 6 November, 1931, he conducted that orchestra and the Academy Capella Choir in the world premiere of Dmitri Shostakovich's "Symphony No. 3 in E flat major", Op. 20 "First of May".He restored Rachmaninoff's discarded "First Symphony" from the orchestral parts found in the archives of the Moscow Conservatory after the composer's death in 1943.

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