Semyon Bychkov
Russian conductor
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Semyon Mayevich Bychkov is a Soviet-born conductor. He currently holds the position of chief conductor and artistic director of the Czech Philharmonic. Biography Childhood and studies in Russia Bychkov was born in Leningrad to Jewish parents. His younger brother was Yakov Kreizberg, also a conductor. Bychkov studied at the Glinka Choir School for ten years before moving to the Leningrad Conservatory where he was a student of Ilya Musin. While at the Conservatory, Bychkov played volleyball for the Leningrad Dynamos. In 1973 he won the Rachmaninov Conducting Competition, but was denied the usual prize of conducting the Leningrad Philharmonic by the authorities after he applied for an exit visa. His family had suffered from official antisemitism and after expressing views critical of the Soviet regime he decided to leave the country in 1974, going first to Vienna with only $100 in funds.
Semyon Bychkov 's Published Works
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- Symphony No. 7 in C major, Opus 60, 'Leningrad' (1990) (1)
- FIRST PERFORMANCES (2011) (0)
- A portrait of the singer Waltraud Meier : a film (2004) (0)
- NEWS SECTION (2012) (0)
- Rachmaninoff : documentaries and performances (2007) (0)
- Symphony no. 6 in B minor, op. 74 : "Pathétique" ; Natcracker suite : op. 71a (1987) (0)
- Concertos for 2 pianos & orchestra (1993) (0)
- The 4 symphonies (1993) (0)
- Waltraud Meier, a portrait (2008) (0)
- Symphony no. 11 in G minor, op. 103 : "The year of 1905" (1988) (0)
- Symphony no. 5 in D, op. 47 (1987) (0)
- Concertos for piano (1991) (0)
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