Nikolai Golovanov
Born: 21st January 1891
Died: 28th August 1953
Nationality: Soviet
Nikolai Semyonovich Golovanov (Russian: Никола́й Семёнович Голова́нов, Nikoláy Semyónovich Golovánov) PAU, was a Soviet conductor and composer, who was married to the soprano Antonina Nezhdanova.
He conducted the premiere performances of a number of works, among them Nikolai Myaskovsky's Sixth Symphony in May 1924.
Golovanov held some of the highest musical positions in the USSR, including an extensive association with the Bolshoi Opera. In her autobiography, Galina Vishnevskaya terms him the theater's chief conductor, and tells of his dismissal from the Bolshoi and his death - which she attributed to the humiliation of the experience of losing this position. It has been reported that Golovanov's firing was the result of Stalin's displeasure at Golovanov's having tried to use a Jewish singer, Mark Reizen, in the title role of Tsar Boris Godunov in his recording of Mussorgsky's opera.
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Nikolay Golovanov, conductor: Tchaikovsky - Francesca da Rimini Op.32 / Symphony No.1, Op. 13. 'Winter Daydreams'
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