Samuil Samosud

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Samuil Samosud in the 1930s

Samuil Abramovich Samosud (Template:Langx; 14 May [O.S. 2 May] 1884, Tiflis — 6 November 1964, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian conductor and pedagogue.

He started his musical career as a cellist, before becoming a conductor at the Mariinsky Theatre, Petrograd in 1917. From 1918 to 1936 he conducted at the Maly Operny, Leningrad. In 1936 he became musical director at the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow. He founded what became the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra in 1951. He premiered several important works, including Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, The Nose and the Seventh Symphony; as well as Prokofiev's War and Peace and On Guard for Peace. Shostakovich "had a high opinion" of Samosud's theatrical performances, and regarded him as "the supreme interpreter" of operatic works including Lady Macbeth.^[1] Nonetheless, after hearing Samosud conduct the Seventh Symphony, the composer wrote that he wanted to hear Yevgeny Mravinsky perform the symphony, as he didn't "have great faith in Samosud as a symphonic conductor".^[2]^[3]

Awards and honors

Honored Artist of the RSFSR
People's Artist of the RSFSR (1936)
Order of the Badge of Honour (1936)
People's Artist of the USSR (1937)
Order of Lenin (1937)
Three Stalin Prizes (1941, 1947, 1952)
Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1964)
Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow"

References

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External links

Samuel Samosud — Biography on Prokofiev.org (on Internet Archive, captured on 4 February 2012)

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Samuil Samosud

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