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Gennadi Rozhdestvensky

real name Геннадий Николаевич Рождественский

Gennadi Rozhdestvensky is credited on 4,561 releases across 557 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1956–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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Biography

Gennady Nikolayevich Rozhdestvensky
Soviet and Russian conductor, teacher, pianist, composer and musical-public figure, teacher, professor at the Moscow Conservatory.
Born: May 4, 1931, Moscow, USSR; Passed Away: June 16, 2018, Moscow, Russia.
People's Artist of USSR (1976). Hero of Socialist Labor (1990). Lenin Prize (1970) and the State Prize of Russia (1995). Son of Наталья Рождественская & Николай Аносов.
Career:
1951—1961 Оркестр Большого театра (Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra) (main conductor assistant)
1961—1974 Большой Симфонический Оркестр Всесоюзного Радио и Центрального телевидения (Large Symphony orchestra of Soviet radio and Central TV)
1964—1970 Оркестр Большого театра (Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra)
1974—1985 Оркестр Камерного музыкального театра (Chamber Theatre Orchestra)
1974—1977 Stockholms Filharmoniska Orkester
1978—1981 BBC Symphony Orchestra
1980—1982 Wiener Symphoniker (Vienna Symphony)
1983—1991 Государственный Симфонический Оркестр Министерства Культуры СССР (Symphony Orchestra of the USSR Ministry of Culture)
1992—1995 Kungliga Filharmonikerna