Kirill Kondrashin(1914-1981)
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Kirill Petrovich Kondrashin was born on March 6, 1914, in Russia. He
graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in 1936, and worked as conductor
at the Maly Theatre of Opera and Ballet in Leningrad from 1936-1943. He
moved to Moscow in 1943 and worked as the conductor at the Bolshoi
Theatre for 16 years. In 1960 Kondrashin was appointed the Artistic
Director of the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra. He conducted the
premiere of the Symphony No. 13 "Baby Yar" by Dmitri Shostakovich and Yevgeniy Yevtushenko in
1961. He left the Soviet Union in 1975 and took a post of principal
conductor of Amsterdam's Concertgebouw Orchestra in 1979. Kondrashin is
known for his numerous recordings of the music of Soviet composers for
Melodiya label during the 60's and 70's. He died on March 7,
1981.