Gennadi rozhdestvensky biography definition

Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, one of the greatest conductors of the day, was born in Moscow in 1931. He studied the piano with Lev Oborin and conducting with his father, Nikolaï Anosov, at the Moscow Conservatoire.

At the unusually early age of 20, still a student at the Conservatoire, he was engaged at the Bolshoi Theatre where he made his début conducting Tchaiikovsky's ballet The Sleeping Beauty.

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His was to be a long term relationship with the Bolshoi: he became their principal conductor between 1964 and 1970, and in 2000 was appointed their General Music Director.

At the Bolshoi, he has conducted more than thirty operas and ballets, and gave the world premiere of Khatchaturian's ballet Spartacus and the Russian premiere of Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

From 1956 on, he toured regularly with the Bolshoi ballet in Europe, Asia and America.

For many years, he also headed the Moscow Radio Orchestra and became the first Soviet conductor,