Grigori Gamburg
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1900 –
Who is Grigori Gamburg?
Grigori Semyonovich Gamburg was a Russian violinist, violist, composer and conductor.
Gamburg graduated from the Tiflis Conservatory in 1922 studying composition with Nikolai Tcherepnin and violin with V.R. Vilshau, and graduated in 1927 from the Moscow Conservatory studying composition with Nikolai Myaskovsky, violin with Boris Sibor, and conducting with Nikolai Malko. Gamburg did postgraduate studies in chamber music, and taught chamber music classes at the Moscow Conservatory from 1928 to 1941, becoming Professor of Chamber Music in 1939. From 1924 to 1930 he was violist with the Stradivari Quartet.
From the early 1930s, Gamburg was conductor of the Radio Symphony Orchestra, and of the Orchestra of the Ministry of Cinematography of the USSR where he was musical director for many Russian-language films.
From 1945–1954 Gamburg was professor of conducting at the Institute of Military Conductors, and professor of chamber music at the Gnesin Academy of Music from 1954.
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