Samuel Samosud
Samuil Abramovich Samosud (russian: Самуи́л Абра́мович Самосу́д) (Tbilisi, Georgia (country), Georgia, — Moscow, 6 November 1964), People's Artist of the USSR, PAU, was a Soviet Union, Soviet and Russian conducting, conductor. He started his musical career as a cello, cellist, before becoming a conductor at the Mariinsky Theater, Petrograd in 1917. From 1918 to 1936 he conducted at the Mikhailovsky Theatre, Maly Operny, Saint Petersburg, Leningrad. In 1936 he became musical director at the Bolshoi Theater, Moscow. He founded what became the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra in 1951. He premiered several important works, including Dmitri Shostakovich, Shostakovich's ''Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (opera), Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District'', ''The Nose (opera), The Nose'' and the Symphony No. 7 (Shostakovich), Seventh Symphony; as well as Sergei Prokofiev, Prokofiev's ''War and Peace (Prokofiev), War and Peace'' and ''On Guard for Peace''. ...
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Samuil Samosud (1930s)
Samuil Abramovich Samosud (russian: Самуи́л Абра́мович Самосу́д) (Tbilisi, Georgia, — Moscow, 6 November 1964), PAU, was a Soviet and Russian conductor. He started his musical career as a cellist, before becoming a conductor at the Mariinsky Theater, Petrograd in 1917. From 1918 to 1936 he conducted at the Maly Operny, Leningrad. In 1936 he became musical director at the Bolshoi Theater, Moscow. He founded what became the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra in 1951. He premiered several important works, including Shostakovich's '' Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District'', '' The Nose'' and the Seventh Symphony; as well as Prokofiev's ''War and Peace'' and ''On Guard for Peace''. Shostakovich "had a high opinion" of Samosud's theatrical performances, and regarded him as "the supreme interpreter" of operatic works including ''Lady Macbeth''. Nonetheless, after hearing Samosud conduct the Seventh Symphony, the composer wrote that he wanted to hear Y ...
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