Eliasberg K.I., (1907-1978), conductor

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ELIASBERG Karl Ilyich (1907-1978, Leningrad), conductor, Honoured Worker of Art of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1944). In 1929 he graduated from Leningrad Conservatory where he majored in violin performance. In 1929-31 he worked as a conductor for the Musical Comedy Theatre. In 1932 he began conducting for the Radio Committee's Grand Symphony Orchestra, of which he became main conductor in 1937-50. In 1941-45 he stayed in Leningrad, heading a symphony orchestra composed of musicians who had remained in besieged Leningrad, conducting concerts in the Grand Hall of the Philharmonic, where on 9 August 1942 he performed D.D. Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony (memorial plaque installed), and giving radio performances of operas. After the war, he went on tour around the entire USSR. Eliasberg is a classicist, his style marked by tact, taste, and an iron will. He developed an extensive and diverse repertoire. Eliasberg's urn of ashes is kept in the Crematorium's Cinerarium.

References: Григорьев Л. Г., Платек Я. М. Современные дирижеры. М., 1969; Крюков А. Н. Музыка в дни блокады: Хроника. СПб., 2002.

A. L. Porfiryeva. Eliasberg Karl Ilyich
Shostakovich Dmitry Dmitrievich
Григорьев Л. Г., Платек Я. М. Современные дирижеры. М., 1969
Крюков А. Н. Музыка в дни блокады: Хроника. СПб., 2002 Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory
Musical Comedy Theatre
Philharmonic named after D.D. Shostakovich
Crematorium
Siege of 1941-44