Ilya Musin (conductor)
Ilya Aleksandrovich Musin (Russian Илья Александрович Мусин; born December 24 1903jul / January 6 1904greg in Kostroma, Russian Empire, .. † June 6, 1999 in Saint Petersburg, Russia) was a Russian conductor, university teachers and theorists in art of conducting.
Life
Mussin studied the field of conducting with Nikolai Andreyevich Malko and Aleksandr Vasilyevich Gauk. In 1934 he became assistant to Fritz Stiedry at the St. Petersburg Philharmonic. Thereafter he was appointed as a conductor with the State Orchestra of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic to Minsk. Since he refused to join the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, his career was curtailed as a conductor for a time. Therefore, he turned to teaching and founded the so-called Leningrad orchestra conductor school. During the Second World War he held from 1941 to 1945 in the capital of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic, Tashkent, on. There, he conducted, for example, on the first anniversary of the German attack on the Soviet Union, on June 22, 1942, the second performance of the 7th Symphony by Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich.
Work as a teacher
Since 1932 Musin taught at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, then the Leningrad Conservatory, the field of conducting. His manner of conducting it had taken in several books and teaches a great number of famous young conductor. These include, among many other Rudolf Borisovich Barshai, Semyon Bychkov, Tugan Sokhiev, Odysseas Dimitriadis, Sian Edwards, Martyn Brabbins, Alexander Walker, Yuri Temirkanov, Valery Gergiev Abissalowitsch, Ennio Nicotra; Leonid Kortschmar, Oleg Zverev, and Oliver Neither.
Awards and honors
- Order of the Red Banner of Labor
- People's Artist of the RSFSR