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Arvids Jansons
Read more...Latvian conductor. Father of Mariss Jansons. Conducted the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra (from 1952). Accompanied the orchestra on tours of Europe and Japan and gave more than four hundred concert...
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Mariss Jansons
Read more...Latvian conductor. Son of Arvids Jansons. Born in German-occupied Riga in the Reichskommissariat Ostland (1943). Won the Herbert von Karajan Conductors Competition (1971) and began working with the L...
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Kurt Sanderling
Read more...German conductor. Born in the town of Ayrs in East Prussia (now Orzysz in Poland) in a Jewish family (1912). Fled to the Soviet Union to escape the Nazis (1936). Appointed a conductor of the Leningra...
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Yevgeny Mravinsky
Read more...Conductor. Born in St Petersburg in the family of lawyer and actual state councillor Alexander Mravinsky (1903). Graduated from the Petrograd Conservatoire as a composer and conductor. Worked at the ...
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