Aleksandr Gauk

Alexander Vasilyevich Gauk or Gauck (Russian: Александр Васильевич Гаук; * 3 Augustjul / August 15 1893greg in Odessa, .. † March 30, 1963 in Moscow) was a Ukrainian composer and conductor.

Gauk studied at the St. Petersburg Conservatory piano with Felix Blumenfeld, composition with Alexander Glazunov and Nikolai Tcherepnin conducting with. In 1917 he became head of the St. Petersburg theater for musical drama and 1923-1931 the Ankara State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre. After he first took over the leadership of the Leningrad Philharmonic ( 1930-34 ), from 1936 to 1941 that of the State Symphony Orchestra of the USSR in Moscow, and from 1953 to 1962 that of the All-Union Radio Symphony Orchestra Moscow. He also taught at the conservatories of Leningrad, Tbilisi and 1939-1963 in Moscow ( since 1948 as a professor ). Among his pupils were Yevgeny Mravinsky, Yevgeny Svetlanov Ilya Musin and. 1954 Gauk was named People's Artist of the RSFSR.

Gauk premiere was conductor of numerous compositions, inter alia, by Dmitri Shostakovich, Sergei Prokofiev, Aram Khachaturian and Nikolai Myaskovsky. He also reconstructed the score of Rachmaninoff's first symphony of individual voices and carried out the work in 1945 for the first time since its world première - failure in 1897 back to the performance.

Among the compositions of Alexander Gauk to find a symphony, a Sinfonietta for String Orchestra, solo concertos for piano or harp and songs.