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Vengerov
Vengerov (russian: Венге́ров) is a Russian and Ukrainian surname derived from the word ''vengr'' (венгр), which means "Hungarian (other), Hungarian". It was given to the people who arrived from Hungary and their descendants, not necessarily of Hungarian origin.:ru:Федосюк, Юрий Александрович, Yuri Fedosyuk (2006). ''What Does Your Surname Mean?'' — Moscow: Flinta, 88 pages. Alternative spellings include Vengerova, Vengerof, Vengerovsky, and Wengeroff. The name may refer to: *Gennadi Vengerov (1959–2015), Russian actor *Isabelle Vengerova (1877–1956), American musician *Maxim Vengerov (born 1974), Russian-born Israeli List of contemporary classical violinists, violinist, violist, and conductor *Pauline Wengeroff (1833–1916), Russian-Jewish German-language writer *Semyon Vengerov (1855–1920), Russian literary historian *Vladimir Vengerov (1920–1997), Russian film director *Yury Vengerovsky (1941–2004), Ukrainian volleyball p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maxim Vengerov
Maxim Alexandrovich Vengerov (russian: Максим Александрович Венгеров, , mɐkˈsʲim ɐlʲɪkˈsandrəvʲɪtɕ vʲɪnˈɡʲerəf; he, מקסים ונגרוב; born 20 August 1974) is a Russian-born Israeli violinist, violist, and conductor. Classic FM has called him “one of the greatest violinists in the world.” Biography Vengerov was born in Novosibirsk, Siberia, the only child of Aleksandr and Larisa Borisovna, oboist and orphanage children’s choir director respectively, and is Jewish."From prodigy to superstar; Virtuoso violinist Maxim Vengerov puts his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Semyon Vengerov
Semyon Afanasievich Vengerov (Russian: Семён Афанасьевич Венгеров; 17 April Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates">O._S._5_April.html" ;"title="Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates.html" ;"title="nowiki/> O._S._5_April">Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates.html"_;"title="nowiki/>Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates">O._S._5_April1855,_Lubny.html" ;"title="Old Style and New Style dates">O. S. 5 April">Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates.html" ;"title="nowiki/>Old Style and New Style dates">O. S. 5 April1855, Lubny">Old Style and New Style dates">O. S. 5 April">Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates.html" ;"title="nowiki/>Old Style and New Style dates">O. S. 5 April1855, Lubny, Poltava Governorate – 14 September 1920, Saint Petersburg, Petrograd) was the preeminent literary historian of Imperial Russia. Vengerov was the son of Chonon (Afanasy) Vengerov and memoirist Pauline Wengeroff, a prominent Jewish family. His parents were of the few acculturated Russian Jews, and sent him to a Christian school ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isabelle Vengerova
Isabelle Vengerova ( be, Ізабэла Венгерава; 7 February 1956) was a Russian, later American, pianist and music teacher. She was born Izabella Afanasyevna Vengerova (Изабелла Афанасьевна Венгерова) in Minsk (now in Belarus) in the family of Pauline Vengerova and her husband Chonon. Her elder brother Semyon Vengerov was a venerable literary historian. She studied the piano at the Vienna Conservatory with Josef Dachs, and privately with Theodor Leschetizky; in Saint Petersburg she studied with Anna Yesipova. In Vienna she was a good friend of Arthur Schnitzler. From 1906 to 1920 she taught at the Imperial Conservatory in St Petersburg and then toured the USSR and Western Europe from 1920 to 1923, when she settled in the USA. While still in St. Petersburg in 1910, she recorded three pieces on Welte-Mignon player piano music rolls. In 1924 she helped found the Curtis Institute and in 1933 joined the faculty of the Mannes College, teach ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gennadi Vengerov
Gennadi Aronovich Vengerov (russian: Геннадий Аронович Венгеров; 27 August 1959 – 22 April 2015) was a Soviet, Russian and German film and theatre actor, narrator and voice-over artist. Biography Vengerov was born on 27 August 1959 in Vitebsk (Belarus). After graduating from the Technical School for Architecture and Construction and a short-term employment as a construction engineer, he started his creative career as an announcer of the Vitebsk Regional Radio. Не performed at the People's Theatre in Vitebsk. In 1980 he was invited to be an actor at the professional scene to the Yakub Kolas Belarus National Academic Drama Theatre. Following his military service in the Soviet Army in 1983 he entered the School-Studio (Institute of Higher Education) at the Moscow Art Theatre for the course by professors Viktor Monyukov and Vladimir Bogomolov. In 1986, on his 4th course year, together with his course mate Mikhail Yefremov they established Sovremennik ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pauline Wengeroff
Pauline Wengeroff (1833–1916), born Pessele Epstein, was the author of a first-of-its kind memoir by a Jewish woman, in which she refracts a period in Jewish history—the emergence and unfolding of Jewish modernity in nineteenth-century Russian Poland—through the experience of women and families. Biography Wengeroff was born in 1833 in Bobrujsk, Belorussia (currently Belarus), and grew up in Brest-Litovsk, in the Minsk district. Her two-volume memoirs, ''Memoiren einer Grossmutter, Bilder aus der Kulturgeschichte der Juden Russlands im 19 Jahrhundert'' ('Memoirs of a Grandmother: Scenes from the Cultural History of the Jews of Russia in the Nineteenth Century'), were originally published in erman, with some Hebrew and Yiddish and a few words in Polishby the German-Jewish publishing house, Poppelauer, beginning in 1908. The work was subsequently re-published several times to rave reviews in the Jewish and non-Jewish presses. Writing The first volume of Wengeroff's memoirs r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Vengerov
Vladimir Yakovlevich Vengerov (russian: Владимир Яковлевич Венгеров; 1920–1997) was a Soviet film director. He directed fourteen films between 1951 and 1985. People's Artist of the RSFSR (1978). His 1962 film '' A Trip Without a Load'' was entered into the 3rd Moscow International Film Festival where it won a Silver Prize. Selected filmography * '' The Forest'' (1953) * '' Two Captains'' (1955) * '' The City Turns the Lights On'' (1958) * ''Baltic Skies ''Baltic Skies'' (russian: Балтийское небо) is a 1960 Soviet drama film directed by Vladimir Vengerov. Plot The film tells about military pilots defending Leningrad during World War II. Cast * Pyotr Glebov as Lunin (as P. Glebo ...'' (1960) * '' A Trip Without a Load'' (1962) * '' Rupture'' (1983) References External links * 1920 births 1997 deaths Soviet film directors People's Artists of the RSFSR Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography alumni People from Saratov { ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yury Vengerovsky
Yury Naumovich Vengerovsky ( uk, Юрій Наумович Венгеровський, russian: Юрий Наумович Венгеровский; 26 October 1938 – 4 December 1998) was a Ukrainian volleyball player who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1964 Summer Olympics. He was Jewish, born in Kharkiv, and died in Belgorod Belgorod ( rus, Белгород, p=ˈbʲeɫɡərət) is a city and the administrative center of Belgorod Oblast, Russia, located on the Seversky Donets River north of the border with Ukraine. Population: Demographics The population of Be ..., Russia. In 1964, he was part of the Soviet team which won the gold medal in the Olympic tournament. He played all nine matches. See also * List of select Jewish volleyball players References External linksprofile Ukrainian men's volleyball players Soviet men's volleyball players Russian men's volleyball players Olympic volleyball players of the Soviet Union Volleyball players at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Contemporary Classical Violinists
This is a list of notable contemporary classical violinists. For the names of notable violinists of all classical music eras see List of classical violinists. Classical violinists A * Rochelle Abramson * Irene Abrigo (born 1988) * Salvatore Accardo (born 1941) * Diana Adamyan (born 2000) * Ayke Agus (born 1949) * Ruben Aharonyan (born 1947) * Sanford Allen (born 1939) * Levon Ambartsumian (born 1955) * Pierre Amoyal (born 1949) * Božena Angelova (born 1981) * Adele Anthony (born 1970) * Gilles Apap (born 1963) * Irvine Arditti (born 1953) * Cecylia Arzewski (born 1948) * Shmuel Ashkenasi (born 1941) * Christina Åstrand (born 1969) * Kinga Augustyn * Daniel Austrich (born 1984) * Felix Ayo (born 1933) B * Alena Baeva (born 1985) * Jenny Oaks Baker (born 1975) * Kristine Balanas (born 1990) * Volodja Balžalorsky (born 1956) * Kristóf Baráti (born 1979) * William Barbini (born 1947) * Pedro Barreto (born 1991) * Lisa Batiashvili (born 1979) * Elise Båtnes (born 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Violist
; german: Bratsche , alt=Viola shown from the front and the side , image=Bratsche.jpg , caption= , background=string , hornbostel_sachs=321.322-71 , hornbostel_sachs_desc=Composite chordophone sounded by a bow , range= , related= *Violin family (violin, cello, double bass) *List of violists , articles= , sound sample = The viola ( , also , ) is a string instrument that is bowed, plucked, or played with varying techniques. Slightly larger than a violin, it has a lower and deeper sound. Since the 18th century, it has been the middle or alto voice of the violin family, between the violin (which is tuned a perfect fifth above) and the cello (which is tuned an octave below). The strings from low to high are typically tuned to C3, G3, D4, and A4. In the past, the viola varied in size and style, as did its names. The word viola originates from the Italian language. The Italians often used the term viola da braccio meaning literally: 'of the arm'. "Brazzo" was another Italian word ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hungarian (other)
Hungarian may refer to: * Hungary, a country in Central Europe * Kingdom of Hungary, state of Hungary, existing between 1000 and 1946 * Hungarians, ethnic groups in Hungary * Hungarian algorithm, a polynomial time algorithm for solving the assignment problem * Hungarian language, a Finno-Ugric language spoken in Hungary and all neighbouring countries * Hungarian notation, a naming convention in computer programming * Hungarian cuisine Hungarian or Magyar cuisine is the cuisine characteristic of the nation of Hungary and its primary ethnic group, the Magyars. Traditional Hungarian dishes are primarily based on meats, seasonal vegetables, fruits, bread, and dairy products. ..., the cuisine of Hungary and the Hungarians See also * * {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hungary
Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and Slovenia to the southwest, and Austria to the west. Hungary has a population of nearly 9 million, mostly ethnic Hungarians and a significant Romani minority. Hungarian, the official language, is the world's most widely spoken Uralic language and among the few non-Indo-European languages widely spoken in Europe. Budapest is the country's capital and largest city; other major urban areas include Debrecen, Szeged, Miskolc, Pécs, and Győr. The territory of present-day Hungary has for centuries been a crossroads for various peoples, including Celts, Romans, Germanic tribes, Huns, West Slavs and the Avars. The foundation of the Hungarian state was established in the late 9th century AD with the conquest of the Carpathian Basin by Hungar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
