Mikhail Gottlieb

Mikhail Davidovich Gottlieb (26 October [8 November] 1907, Yaroslavl — 10 September 1978, Moscow) was a Soviet composer, pianist, and music teacher.

He studied piano with Konstantin Igumnov at the Moscow Conservatory from 1924 to 1930. From 1932 to 1938 he taught piano at the Music Technical School attached to the Moscow Conservatory.

From 1938 he was a teacher at the conservatory’s military faculty, becoming an associate professor in 1942 and a professor in 1971 in the department of instrumentation and score reading. The institution later functioned as the Institute of Military Conductors from 1949 and, from 1960, as the military-conducting faculty of the conservatory.

Beginning in 1927, Gottlieb performed in a piano duo with his brother Adolf Gottlieb. He was buried at the Donskoye Cemetery.

In 1968 he was named Honored Artist of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.

Among his musical works are a Suite for two pianos and symphony orchestra (1951); a number of works for wind orchestra, including Suite (1952), Suite on Themes of Revolutionary Songs (1970), the suite "Contemporary" (1970), March-Grotesque (1961), Serenade (1963), Burlesque (1965), Solemn Overture, published in 1966, Festive Overture, published in 1967, Humoresque (1967), Overture-Capriccio, published in 1968, Capriccio (1970), Youth Overture (1970), the march "Sailor Cap" (1972), and Theme with Variations for trumpet and wind orchestra (1978). He also wrote a Concerto for alto saxophone and wind orchestra (1974) and made concert arrangements for two pianos of works by Bach, Handel, Borodin, Rachmaninoff, Khachaturian, Polovinkin, Rakov, and others.

Gottlieb also published instructional literature, including Course in Score Reading (with Ya. M. Kaabak and E. P. Makarov, Moscow, 1956), Practical Course in Score Reading for Wind Orchestra (with the same co-authors, Moscow, 1960), and A Manual on Instrumentation for Leaders of Amateur Wind Orchestras (with N. Zudin, Moscow, 1961).

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