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.
Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Golovanov
Browse: Nikolai Golovanov
Recent Best Sellers: Nikolai Golovanov
-
Oistrakh & Golovanov
David Oistrakh (violin), Lev Oborin (piano Beethoven), Vladimir Knuseyitsky (cello Beethoven), Vladimir Vampolski (piano Vitali & Brahms) Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, Nikolai Golovanov
CD: $9.50Download from $10.00 -
Special offer. Tchaikovsky: Symphonies and Piano Concerto
Emil Gilels (piano), Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, Nikolaj Golovanov
2 CDs: Original price $21.75 Reduced $16.31Download from $10.00 -
Great Musicians of Ukraine - Special Charity Album
Ryda Lysenko, Simon Barere (piano), Benno Moiseiwitsch (piano), announcer, Sergei Prokofiev, Sviatoslav Richter (piano), Emil Gilels (piano), Gregor Piatigorsky (cello), Valentin Pavlovsky, Borys Kroyt, Ilonka von Pathy, Nathan Milstein (violin), Leopold Mittman, Nina Koshetz, Boris Lang, Mark Reizen, All Union Radio Orchestra, Antonina Nezhdanova, Ivan Kozlovsky, Alexander Kipnis (bass), Wolfgang Rosé, Boris Gmiria, Natalia Zakharchenko, Andrei Ivanov, Naum Walter, Salomea Kruszelnitzka, orchestra, Maria Litvernko Volgemut, Ivan Patorzhinsky, Vladimir Yorish, Kyiv Theater Orchestra, Oscar Feltsman, David Oistrakh (violin), Vladimir Yampolsky (piano), Julius Ehrlich, Orchestre Symphonique de Paris, Klavdiya Novikova, Georgy Fuchs-Martin, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Anatole Fistoulari, Alexander Orlov, Nikolai Golovanov
CD: $12.50Download from $8.00 -
Liszt Symphonic Poems
UDSSR Large Radio Orchestra Moscow, Nikolai Golovanov
CD: $9.50Download from $10.00
