Emmanuel Eduardovich Kruger was a Russian violinist and music teacher, born on 29 April 1865 in Tver, Russian Empire, and died on 25 April 1938 in Leningrad. He was awarded the title Honored Artist of the Republic in 1921 and Honored Artist of the RSFSR in 1937. He was a cousin-nephew of Ivan Turgenev.
Kruger studied at the Moscow Conservatory with Ivan Grzhimali and then at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory with Leopold Auer. Alongside Sergei Korguyev, he served as concertmaster of the orchestra of conservatory students and graduates created by Auer. From 1895 he was concertmaster of the Mariinsky Theatre ballet orchestra.
As a chamber musician, Kruger played second violin in Auer's string quartet. In 1892 he took part in the premiere of the second version of Tchaikovsky's string sextet “Souvenir de Florence”.
From 1899 Kruger taught at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, and from 1908 he was a professor there. Among his students were the violist Alexander Ryvkin, the conductor of the Russian folk instruments orchestra Nikolai Osipov, and the composer Boris Brovtsyn. He retired in 1929 and was buried at the Volkov Lutheran Cemetery in Leningrad.
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