- Samuil Samosud
Samuil Abramovich Samosud ( _ru. Самуил Абрамович Самосуд;
Tbilisi , Georgia, OldStyleDate|14 May|1884|2 May —Moscow , 6 November, 1964) was aRussia n conductor. He started his musical career on thecello , before conducting in theMariinsky Theater ,Petrograd in 1917. From 1918 to 1936 he conducted at the Maly Operny, Leningrad. In 1936 he became musical director at theBolshoi Theater ,Moscow . He founded what became theMoscow Philharmonic Orchestra in 1951. He premiered several important works, including Shostakovich's "Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District", "The Nose", ""Leningrad Symphony"" and Prokofiev's "War and Peace". Shostakovich "had a high opinion" of Samosud, regarding him as "the supreme interpreter" of operatic works including "Lady Macbeth". [cite book
last=Shostakovich
first=Dmitri
coauthors=Isaak Glikman
others=trans. Anthony Phillips
title=Story of a Friendship: The Letters of Dmitry Shostakovich to Isaak Glikman, 1941-1975
year=2001
publisher=Cornell University Press
isbn=0801439795
edition=
location=Ithaca, NY
url=http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0801439795&id=sS9HXcUCfaoC&pg=PR36&lpg=PR36&vq=samosud&sig=fvHEWaoiVxCIrXeHVBWrVCCEryU
pages=xxxvi] However, after Samosud premiered the "Leningrad Symphony", the composer wrote that he wanted to hearMravinsky perform the symphony, as he didn't "have great faith in Samosud as a symphonic conductor". [cite book
last=Shostakovich
first=Dmitri
coauthors=Isaak Glikman
others=trans. Anthony Phillips
title=Story of a Friendship: The Letters of Dmitry Shostakovich to Isaak Glikman, 1941-1975
year=2001
publisher=Cornell University Press
isbn=0801439795
edition=
location=Ithaca, NY
url=http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0801439795&id=sS9HXcUCfaoC&pg=PA7&lpg=PA7&vq=samosud&sig=9PEhy13zL87XJGw6tiQ6dPLrsh0
pages=7]References
External links
* [http://www.prokofiev.org/prokofievans/prkfartist.cfm?atype=Conductors&aid=104 Biography]
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