Gennady Rozhdestvensky

Gennady Nikolayevich Rozhdestvensky (Russian Геннадий Николаевич Рождественский, scientific transliteration Gennady Nikolaevich Roždestvenskij; born May 4, 1931 in Moscow ) is a Russian conductor.

Gennady Rozhdestvensky is the son of conductor Nikolay Pavlovich Anossow and singer Natalya Petrovna Roschdestwenskaja.

Rozhdestvensky first completed a classical music education at the Conservatory of Moscow. Through his father he got the basics of orchestral conducting conveys. In 1951 he made ​​his debut as a conductor in a performance of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker at the Bolshoi Theatre. By the early 1960s he worked as an assistant at the Bolshoi Theatre and directed several ballets.

From 1960 to 1974 he led the Radio Symphony Orchestra of the USSR. Rozhdestvensky was the first conductor, the works of Carl Orff, Paul Hindemith, Béla Bartók and Maurice Ravel was allowed to present in the Soviet Union. From 1964 he was also artistic director of the Bolshoi. In the following years, he became the musical director of the Moscow Chamber Opera. From 1975 he worked in Stockholm and London. 1981 to 1984 he was chief conductor of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. From 1991, he headed the Stockholm Philharmonic. In 1994 he became chairman of the artistic advisory board of the Bolshoi.

In 2000 he was appointed Artistic Director of the return to the Bolshoi Theatre. A post he put down in 2001 after just one season after he insert sharp criticism for the staging of Prokofiev 's opera The player must.

Gennady Rozhdestvensky is considered one of the most important interpreters of contemporary Russian and Soviet music. He performs, among other things often toured extensively through Europe, Japan and the United States.

Rozhdestvensky is married to the pianist Wiktoria Valentinovna Postnikowa.

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