Evgeni Svetlanov

Yevgeny (or Evgeny) Feodorovich Svetlanov was one of the 20th century's leading Russian conductors. He came from a musical and theatrical family: his father was a soloist in the Bolshoi Theater and his mother was an artist in a mime theater. Svetlanov was a 1951 graduate of the Gnesin Institute where he studied composition with Mikhail Gnesin and piano with Mariya Gurvich; later, Svetlanov continued his studies with Yury Shaporin in composition and Alexander Gauk in conducting at the Moscow Conservatory. While Svetlanov was still a student, he conducted with the All-Union Rad...