Nikolai Semyonovich Rabinovich (Nikolai Rabinovich) |

Nikolai Rabinovich

Nikolai Rabinovich has been a conductor for almost forty years. In 1931 he graduated from the Leningrad Conservatory, where he studied conducting with N. Malko and A. Gauk. At the same time, concert performances of the young musician began at the Leningrad Philharmonic. Even during the conservatory period, Rabinovich became one of the first conductors of the Soviet sound film. Subsequently, he had to lead the Leningrad Radio Symphony Orchestra and the second Philharmonic Orchestra.

Rabinovich regularly conducts orchestras in Moscow, Leningrad and many other cities of the country. Among his most notable works are major works of foreign classics – Mozart’s “Great Mass” and “Requiem”, all the symphonies of Beethoven and Brahms, the First, Third, Fourth Symphonies and “Song of the Earth” by Mahler, Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony. He also owns the first performance in the USSR of “War Requiem” by B. Britten. A significant place in the conductor’s concert programs is occupied by Soviet music, primarily the works of D. Shostakovich and S. Prokofiev.

From time to time, Rabinovich also conducted at Leningrad opera houses (The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, Mozart’s Abduction from the Seraglio, Beethoven’s Fidelio, Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman).

Since 1954, Professor Rabinovich has been the head of the Department of Opera and Symphony Conducting at the Leningrad Conservatory. A recognized authority in this field, he trained many Soviet conductors, including N. Yarvi, Yu. Aranovich, Yu. Nikolaevsky, laureates of the Second All-Union Conducting Competition A. Dmitriev, Yu. Simonov and others.

L. Grigoriev, J. Platek, 1969