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Emil Gilels

real name Эмиль (Самуил) Григорьевич Гилельс

Ukraine

Emil Gilels is credited on 2,551 releases across 285 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1950–2026 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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2,551

Credits

285

Albums

8

Decades active

23

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Emil (Samuel) Grigorievich Gilels (October 6 (19), 1916, Odessa, Russian Empire - October 14, 1985, Moscow, USSR) - Soviet pianist, music teacher. Hero of Socialist Labor (1976). People's Artist of the USSR (1954). Laureate of the Lenin Prize (1962) and the Stalin Prize of the first degree (1946).
Father of Elena Gilels.

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2,551 releases · 285 albums · active 1950–2026

  • Performance · 3,117
  • Other credits · 27

Studios: Grand Hall Of The Moscow Conservatoire · Jesus-Christus-Kirche, Berlin · Turku Concert Hall · Severance Hall

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