Leo Ginzburg

Leo Ginzburg was a Soviet conductor, pianist, music theorist, teacher, and professor. He was born in Warsaw in 1901 into a Jewish family.

In 1919 he graduated from the music school in Nizhny Novgorod. From 1923 to 1928 he studied at the Moscow Conservatory with Konstantin Saradzhev and Nikolai Golovanov. He studied music theory with Georgy Catoire, Georgy Conus, and Boleslav Yavorsky.

From 1929 to 1931 he undertook further training in Berlin with Otto Klemperer and Hermann Scherchen. Between 1945 and 1948, Ginzburg served as chief conductor of the Azerbaijan State Philharmonic.

From 1930 until his death in 1979, for fifty years, Ginzburg taught at the Moscow Conservatory, and from 1939 he was a professor there. He trained a large generation of distinguished conductors, among them Veronika Dudarova, Konstantin Ivanov, Dmitry Kitayenko, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Pavel Kogan, Kamal Abdullayev, Israil Gusman, Viktor Dubrovsky, Mikhail Maluntsyan, Alexander Lazarev, Abram Stasevich, Leonid Grin, Fuat Mansurov, and Alexander Tupitsyn.

Ginzburg was one of the performers of the Symphony in E-flat major by Tchaikovsky reconstructed by the Soviet musicologist Semyon Bogatyryov. He was honored as a Merited Art Worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in 1966.

He died in Moscow in 1979 and was buried at Vostryakovskoye Cemetery. Ginzburg also published writings on conducting and musical interpretation, including “Notes on Mastery” and the posthumous collection “Selected Works. Conductors and Orchestras. Questions of the Theory and Practice of Conducting.”

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