Yevgeny Mravinsky

Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Mravinsky (Russian: Евгений Александрович Мравинский, scientific transliteration Evgeny Alexandrovich Mravinskij; * 22 Maijul / 4 June 1903greg in Saint Petersburg, .. † 19 January 1988 in Leningrad) was a Russian conductor.

Mrawinskis training began at the Leningrad University initially studying science, he dropped out after his father's death in 1920. He then worked as a coach at the State Ballet School (1921-1931) and a student at the Leningrad Conservatory composition with Vladimir Schtscherbatschow and conducting with Nikolai Malko and Alexander Gauk. 1931 to 1937 he was an assistant and ballet conductor at the Grand Opera Theatre ( since 1934 Kirov Theater ). After winning a competition in 1938 Conductor Mravinsky was appointed music director of the Leningrad Philharmonic (now St. Petersburg Philharmonic ) appointed, a post he held until his death in 1988. During almost 50 years of legendary conductor formed the Philharmonic one of the best orchestras in the world. Since concert tours were not possible in the West during the Cold War for a long time, this knowledge has, however, only gradually enforced outside the countries of the former Eastern Bloc.

Yevgeny Mravinsky was responsible for the premieres of many works of Dmitri Shostakovich, with whom he was to create a rift for political reasons in the 1960s, a close friend. Mravinsky 's dedicatee of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 8.

Especially legendary are Mrawinskis LP recordings of the symphonies of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, which are characterized by a remarkable freshness and faithfulness and represent the antithesis to the often emotionally overloaded interpretation of Western conductors.

Yevgeny Mravinsky is buried in the Bogoslowskoje Cemetery in Saint Petersburg.