Evgeny Svetlanov

Evgeny Svetlanov

Evgeny Fyodorovich Svetlanov (September 6, 1928 – May 3, 2002) was a conductor and composer and - less well-known - a pianist.

Svetlanov was born in Moscow and studied conducting at the conservatory there. From 1955 he conducted at the Bolshoi Theatre, being appointed principal conductor there in 1962. From 1965 he was principal conductor of the USSR State Symphony Orchestra (now the Russian State Symphony Orchestra). In 1979 he was appointed principal guest conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra.

In 2000 Svetlanov was fired from his post with the Russian State Symphony Orchestra by Vladimir Putin's minister of culture, Mikhail Shvydkoi. The reason given was that Svetlanov was spending too much time conducting abroad and not enough time in Moscow. [http://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/russian/cultural.shtml]

Svetlanov was particularly noted for his interpretations of Russian works - he covered the whole range of Russian music, from Mikhail Glinka to the present day. He was also one of the few Russian conductors to conduct the entire symphonic output of Gustav Mahler.

His own compositions included a string quartet (1948), symphony (1956), Russian Variations for harp and orchestra (1975), and a piano concerto (1976) among other works. [cite web|last=van Rijen|first=Onno|date=2007-11-18|publisher=Onno van Rijen's Shostakovich & Other Soviet Composers Page|title=Yevgeny Svetlanov: Internet Edition|url=http://home.wanadoo.nl/ovar/svetlan.htm|accessdate=2007-12-05]

Svetlanov was also an extremely fine pianist, two notable recordings being Rachmaninov's Piano Trio no.2 in d minor, and a disc of Medtner's piano music.

Warner Music France has issued an 'Édition officielle Evgeny Svetlanov' featuring Svetlanov's legacy of recordings as conductor and pianist, which by July 2008 had run to 35 volumes of CDs, often multiple-CD boxed sets. The biggest of these is the 16-CD box of the complete symphonies of Nikolai Miaskovsky, to whose music Svetlanov was devoted.

External links


* [http://www.svetlanov.net/ Japanese lover's great site]
* [http://www.svetlanov-evgeny.com/EN/biographie/index.php Homepage]
*ru icon [http://www.stihi-rus.ru/2/svetlanov-rus.htm About Evgenii Svetlanove. Peter Solovjov]


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