Nikolai Malko
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Nikolai (Mykola) Malko (uk: Микола Малько) (4 May 1883, Semaky, Ukraine – 23 June 1961, Sydney, Australia) was a Ukrainian conductor.
In 1906 Malko completed his studies in history and language at the Petersburg University and in 1909 the Petersburg Conservatory. He included Rimsky-Korsakov, Glazunov and Liadov among his teachers. Malko in his youth published articles on music criticism in the Russian press and performed as a pianist and later a conductor. In 1909 he became a conductor at the Mariyinsky Theatre and in 1915 the head conductor. From 1909 he studied conducting in Munich under Feliks Motel. In 1918 he became the director of the conservatory in Vitebsk and from 1921 taught at the Moscow Conservatory. He became conductor of the Leningrad Philharmonic in 1926 and conducted the première of Dmitri Shostakovich]]’s First Symphony in the same year. However, he was succeeded by his pupil Evgeny Mravinsky only two years later when the tightening of the Soviet screws against the arts caused him to emigrate.
In 1928 during a concert tour he defected to the West. He lived in Vienna, Prague and, from 1930, Copenhagen.
Malko held no prestigious post in the West, but enjoyed a long-standing relationship with the Royal Danish and Danish State Broadcasting Symphony Orchestras and concluded his career as conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.
He settled in the [[[United States]] in 1940 where he also taught conducting; his thoughts on conducting technique were gathered together and published in "The Conductor and his Baton" (1950) and a handbook on conducting currently available in the USA (Elizabeth A. H. Green: The Modern Conductor, 1996) is explicitly based on the principles of that book. He recorded extensively for EMI in Copenhagen and then with the Philharmonia, mainly Russian repertoire. His transfer to Australia in 1956 meant that he made no further records between then and his death in 1961.
Malko conducted the premières of Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 1 and Symphony No. 2, Nikolai Myaskovsky's Symphony No. 5.[1] In 1951 he premièred Vagn Holmboe's seventh symphony with the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra.[2] Late in life he became chief conductor of the Sydney Symphony, having also worked and recorded quite often in Britain.
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- ^ Reference for Malko's 1920 Premiere of Myaskovsky's 5th Symphony. Retrieved on 2007-01-12.
- ^ Rapoport, Paul (1996). The compositions of Vagn Holmboe : a catalog of works and recordings with indexes of persons and titles. Copenhagen : Edition W. Hansen, page 46. ISBN 87-598-0813-6.
^ Reference for Malko's 1920 Premiere of Myaskovsky's 5th Symphony
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| Preceded by Valery Berdyaev |
Musical Directors, St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra 1926-1930 |
Succeeded by Aleksandr Gauk |
| Preceded by Launy Grøndahl |
Principal Conductors, Danish National Symphony Orchestra 1930-1937 |
Succeeded by Fritz Busch |
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