Nikolai Rabinovich Explained

Nikolai Semyonovich Rabinovich (Russian: Николай Семенович Рабинович) (7 October 1908–26 July 1972) was a Soviet conductor and teacher.Rabinovich studied under Nikolai Malko^[1] and graduated from the Leningrad Conservatory in 1931, becoming a professor in 1968.^[2] He trained a series of notable conductors including Yuri Simonov, Neeme Järvi, Vladislav Chachin, Vitaliy Kutsenko, and Victor Yampolsky.^[3]

He was director of the Mikhaylovsky Theatre 1944–1948.

Discography

• Legendary Conductors - Nikolai Rabinovich. Berlioz, Shostakovich, Mozart.

Notes and References

1. Current biography yearbook: Volume 54 H.W. Wilson Company - 1993 "My teacher, my musical father, was Nikolai Rabinovich, who had been a pupil of Nikolai Malko, so that made Malko my musical grandfather. I heard him once, when he was eighty, and remember to this day how he conducted Tchaikovsky's Fifth ."
2. http://www.calend.ru/person/3123/ Рабинович, Николай Семёнович
3. Куценко, Виталий Данилович