Vyacheslav Nagovitsin

Vyacheslav Lavrent'yevich Nagovitsin (Russian: Вячеслав Лаврентьевич Наговицин) is a Russian composer born in Magnitogorsk (21 December 1939). He was a student of Dmitri Shostakovich at the Leningrad Conservatory that he graduated in 1966 (postgraduate school, he graduated from the undergraduate school of the Conservatory in 1963). In 1963-1964 he worked in Ulan-Ude Opera and Ballet Theater. In 1966-1970 he was a lecturer at the Mussorgsky Music School in Leningrad. In 1968-1970 he also worked as the Music Director of the Leningrad Comedy Theatre. Since 1970 he became a professor at the Leningrad Conservatory.[1] He orchestrated two unfinished operas of Modest Mussorgsky: Zhenitba and Salammbô. His orchestration of Salammbô was used by Valery Gergiev at the Mérida festival in 1991.

Selected works
  • Violin concerto, opus 21 (1970)
  • Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
  • Sonata for Flute and Piano

References
  1. Наговицин, Вячеслав Лаврентьевич. Great Biographic Encyclopedia (in Russian). Retrieved 2009-03-29.

Sources
  • Moshevich, Sofia, Dmitri Shostakovich - Pianist (McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 2004) - ISBN 0-7735-2581-5
  • Cummings, David, International Who s who in Music and Musicians Directory page 483 (Routledge, 2000) ISBN 0-948875-53-4
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