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in 1893. He recalled his first experience as hearing army bands and his mother singing and accompanying herself at the piano. When he was seven he began piano studies and at 17 travelled to
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released two box sets (Vol. 1, 2008; Vol. 2, 2010) with recordings taken from broadcasts of works by Russian and other composers.
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Gauk's first conducting experience was in 1912 with a student orchestra, and professionally on 1 October 1917 for a production of
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Gauk's own compositions include a symphony, chamber works for strings and works for piano. He left an unfinished autobiography.
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From 1932 he worked in Moscow and became chief conductor of a new radio orchestra in 1936, which evolved into the
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3 August] 1893 – 30 March 1963) was a Soviet conductor and composer.
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in 1944; the manuscript score was lost in the 1920s. He conducted the world premiere of
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at the Petrograd Musical Drama Theatre. He spent much of the 1920s as conductor for the
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Musical Directors, State Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Russian Federation
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and managed to gain entrance to the class of Daugover, later moving over to
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Conservatory and reviving the Georgian State Symphony Orchestra.
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Music Directors, Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow Radio
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This article about a Russian conductor or bandleader is a
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Tassie G. Papa Gauk – the father of Russian conductors.
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Musical Directors, St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra
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from the orchestral parts found in the archives of the
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Index

Russian
O.S.
Odessa
St. Petersburg
Felix Blumenfeld
Arthur Nikisch
Claude Debussy
Richard Strauss
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Cherevichki
Mariinsky Ballet
Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra
Dmitri Shostakovich
Third Symphony
USSR State Symphony Orchestra
Tbilisi
Sergei Rachmaninoff
First Symphony
Moscow Conservatory
Aram Khachaturian
Cello Concerto
Brilliant Classics
Edouard Grikurov
Yevgeny Mravinsky
Ilya Musin
Yevgeny Svetlanov



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