Fuat Mansurov

Fuat Mansurov (Russian Мансуров, Фуат Шакирович; born January 10, 1928 in Alma- Ata, USSR at that time, † June 11, 2010 in Moscow) was a Soviet conductor.

Life and work

During his school years at a musical- technical school Mansurov learned seven years cello. In 1950 he finished his studies at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at the State University of Alma- Ata ( Kazakh State University). In 1951 he obtained his diploma at the musicians Kurmangazy Conservatory of Alma- Ata, Kazakh National today Kurmangazy Conservatory. There, he studied in the Department of Opera and Symphonic Conducting in the class of Professor Isidor Zak. Further studies as a postgraduate Mansurov led to Professor Leo Ginsberg at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, and the internationally renowned conductor and music professor Igor Markevitch at the Conservatoire de Paris.

From 1953 to 1956 Mansurov was as a conductor at the State Academic Theatre, dedicated for opera and ballet in Alma- Ata ( Kazakh Abay Theatre of Opera and Ballet ), the former opera house of Alma- Ata. In 1957 he won the First Prize at the 6th World Youth Music Festival in Moscow. In 1958 he was awarded the title of " Outstanding Artist of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic ( SSR) " award ( " Honored Artist of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic "). In 1958 he was chief conductor of the newly formed State Radio Symphony Orchestra of Kazakh People's Republic ( Kazakh SSR State Symphony Orchestra ). From 1963 to 1967 he was chief conductor of the State Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet ( Abay Kazakh Theater of Opera and Ballet ) in Alma- Ata. At the same time he headed from 1963, the opera and symphony orchestra of the Moscow Conservatory. From 1967 Mansurov conducted regularly in Kazan. From 1968 to 1970 he was chief conductor at the State there Tatar Musa Dzhalil Opera and Ballet Theatre ( Tatar Musa Djalil Academic State Theatre of Opera and Ballet ).

From 1969 Mansurov was then conductor at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. There, he conducted, among others, the opera premieres of Semyon Kotko of Prokofiev (1970), Il Trovatore (1972 ), Rusalka by Alexander Dargomyzhsky (1976 ), L' Heure Espagnole (1978 ) and several ballet premieres.

In 1971 he became the conductor of the orchestra of the Moscow Conservatory, the first prize in the Herbert von Karajan Competition in West Berlin. In 1975 he received the title " People's Artist of the Republic of Tatarstan ". Since 1989 he was chief conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra Tatar ( Tartar State Symphony Orchestra ). There he conducted from 1991 to 1993 several concert programs, mainly symphonic music. In 1994 he was awarded for his artistic merits with the Gabdullah Tukay Prize, the highest state award of the Republic of Tatarstan.

Since 1980, Mansurov professor at the Moscow Conservatory and since 1986 at the Conservatory of Kazan. In his dissertation Mansurov developed new methods for training and the inclusion of young musicians in a symphony orchestra. 1997 started off with the International Council of Scientific Development Mansourow the Russian section to a member of the International Academy of Sciences. In 1998 he was appointed People's Artist of the Russian Federation. In 2004 he was made an honorary member of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan. In 2005 he was awarded the Order of Friendship.

Repertoire

His repertoire as a conductor included: the opera The Barber of Seville, La Damnation de Faust, Margaret, Madama Butterfly, Mazeppa, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Carmen, Tosca, Iolanthe, Prince Igor, The Stone Guest by Alexander Dargomyzhsky, A Life for the Tsar dead Souls by Rodion Konstantinovich Shchedrin, Pique Dame, Iphigenia in Aulis and the Ballets: Swan Lake, Spartacus by Aram Khachaturian, Don Quixote, Romeo and Juliet and the Fountain of Bakhchisarai by Boris Vladimirovich Assafjew ​​.

Mansurov also conducted several opera and ballet productions abroad: Tosca, Eugene Onegin and Vincent of Einojuhani Rautavaara in Helsinki, Pique Dame in Buenos Aires, Istanbul and Ljubljana, Norma and La Bohème in Zagreb, A Life for the Tsar in Ljubljana and The Nutcracker in Helsinki, Sleeping Beauty in Zagreb, Ljubljana in Swan Lake and Romeo and Juliet at the Festival in Savonlinna. Guest performances Mansurov also in the USA, France, Brazil, South Korea, Greece, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Australia.

Fuat Mansurov took numerous works, mainly of Russian music, and for the record on. Is given to its production of the opera The Tsar's Bride by Rimsky -Korsakov in 1974 with Irina Arkhipova, Galina Vishnevskaya, Vladimir Atlantow, Vladimir Valaitis and Yevgeny Nesterenko as outstanding.