Gennady Rozhdestvensky

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Gennady Rozhdestvensky (Генна́дий Рожде́ственский) (born May 4, 1931) is a Russian conductor.

He was born in Moscow to musician parents as Gennady Nikolayevich Anosov, but adopted his mother's maiden name (in its masculine form) for his professional career. He studied conducting with his father Nikolai Anosov at the Moscow Conservatory and piano with Lev Oborin. Already known for having conducted Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker ballet at the Bolshoi Theatre at the age of 20, he quickly established his reputation. He premiered many works of Soviet composers, as well as giving the Russian premiere of Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

He has been praised for his efficient rehearsals which he keeps short, and is noted for his habit of walking around the stage while conducting and not using a podium, even at concerts.

He has had tenures with the following orchestras:

With the USSR Ministry of Culture Symphony Orchestra he recorded all the symphonies of Shostakovich, Glazunov, Bruckner, Schnittke, Honegger, and Vaughan Williams.

He has also conducted many of the world's greatest orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic, the Royal Concertgebouw, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, and the London Symphony Orchestra.

Among the works dedicated to Rozhdestvensky is Sofia Gubaidulina's symphony Stimmen... Verstummen....

He edited the second volume of the collected works of Shostakovich, which includes the Third and Fourth Symphonies and which was published in 1984.

In 1969 he married the pianist Viktoria Postnikova.

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Preceded by:
Alexander Gauk		 Music Director, Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow Radio
1961–1974		 Succeeded by:
Vladimir Fedoseyev
Preceded by:
Evgeny Svetlanov		 Music Director, Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow
1965–1970		 Succeeded by:
Yuri Simonov
Preceded by:
Antal Doráti		 Principal Conductor, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
1974–1977		 Succeeded by:
Yuri Ahronovich
Preceded by:
Rudolf Kempe		 ChiefConductor, BBC Symphony Orchestra
1978–1981		 Succeeded by:
John Pritchard
Preceded by:
Carlo Maria Giulini		 Principal Conductor, Vienna Symphony Orchestra
1980–1982		 Succeeded by:
Georges Prêtre
Preceded by:
Maxim Shostakovich		 Principal Conductor, State Symphony Capella of Russia
1981–1992		 Succeeded by:
Valery Polyansky
Preceded by:
Paavo Berglund		 Principal Conductor, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
1991–1995		 Succeeded by:
Andrew Davis and Paavo Järvi
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