Mikhail Gnesin
Also recorded as Mikhail Fabianovich Gnesin · Mikhail Fabianovich Gnessin · Michael Fabionovitch Gniessin
Mikhail Gnesin
Журнал «Огонёк» №27, 1946 год · Public domain
- Born
- 1883 · Rostov-on-Don.
- Died
- 1957 · Moscow.
- Nationality
- Russian Empire · Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic · Soviet Union
- Occupation
- composer · music educator · professor
- Fields
- opera
- Education
- Saint Petersburg Conservatory
- Honours
- Stalin Prize · Order of the Red Banner of Labour · Medal For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945 · Honored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
- Languages
- Russian
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Mikhail Gnesin studied at Saint Petersburg Conservatory. The recorded working language is Russian. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are opera. Employment is recorded with Moscow Conservatory. Distinctions recorded are Stalin Prize, Order of the Red Banner of Labour, Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" and Honored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
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- 2.Moisenko, Rena. (1949) Realist Music: 25 Soviet Composers, London: Meridian Book, Ltd.
- 3.Hanoch Avenary. "The Musical Vocabulary of Ashkenazic Hazanim." Biblical and Jewish Folklore. Bloomington, Indiana, 1960. pp.187–198.
- 4.Phillips, Anthony & Prokofiev, Sergey. (2006). "Sergey Prokofiev Diaries, 1907–1914: Prodigious Youth", p. 498 Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
- 5.Saminsky, Lazare. Milken Archive of Jewish Music.
- 6.Sitsky, Larry. (1994) Music of the Repressed Russian Avant-Garde, 1900–1929, pp.217, 242–243 & 247 Westport, CT: Greenwood Press
- 7.Sitsky, Larry. (1994) Music of the Repressed Russian Avant-Garde, 1900–1929, p. 217 Westport, CT: Greenwood Press
- 8.Leach, Robert. (2004) Makers of Modern Theatre: An Introduction, p. 59 London: Routledge
- 9.Stravinsky, Igor. Dialogues and a Diary. Doubleday. 47. 1963.
- 10.Sitsky, Larry. (1994) Music of the Repressed Russian Avant-Garde, 1900–1929, pp. 217–218 Westport, CT: Greenwood Press
- 11.Moss, Kenneth B. (2009) Jewish Renaissance in the Russian Revolution Cambridge: Harvard Press
- 12.Sitsky, Larry. (1994) Music of the Repressed Russian Avant-Garde, 1900–1929, p. 218 Westport, CT: Greenwood Press
- 13.Hirshberg, Jehoash. Music in the Jewish Community of Palestine 1880–1948: A Social History. Clarendon Press. 44–46, 80–82. 1995. 0198162421.
- 14.Hirshberg, Jehoash. Music in the Jewish Community of Palestine 1880–1948: A Social History. Clarendon Press. 81. 1995. 0198162421.
- 15.Edmunds, Neil. (2004) Soviet Music and Society under Lenin and Stalin: The Baton and Sickle. p. 225 New York: Routledge Curzon
- 16.Tassie, Gregor. Kirill Kondrashin: His Life in Music. Scarecrow Press. 97. 2010. 9780810869745.
- 17.Utechin, S. V. Everyman's Concise Encyclopaedia of Russia. J. M. Dent & Sons. 202. 1961.
- 18.Cohen, Aaron I. International Encyclopedia of Women Composers. Books & Music (USA). 572. 1987. 978-0-9617485-1-7.
- 19.Sitsky, Larry. (1994) Music of the Repressed Russian Avant-Garde, 1900–1929, pp. 242–243 & 247 Westport, CT: Greenwood Press
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