Yuri Temirkanov(1938-2023)

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In 1941, his father was executed by firing squad by the invading Germans. His mother took his siblings and him to the relative safety of the Caucasus Mountains. He eventually attended the Leningrad Conservatory, where he studied violin and viola. He became conductor of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, among other ensembles.

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Alexander Nevsky

7.4

Music Department(as Yu. Temirkanov)

1938

Blokada: Luzhskiy rubezh, Pulkovskiy meredian

7.1

Music Department

1974

Zvezda plenitelnogo schastya

7.2

Music Department(as Yu. Temirkanov)

1975

Vsadnik bez golovy

6.5

Music Department

1973

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Verdi: Requiem
TV Movie
- conductor
- 2011
Verdi: La traviata
8.0
TV Movie
- conductor
- 2007
Great Composers
8.0
TV Series
- conductor
- 1997
Moya Karmen
5.7
TV Movie
- conductor
- 1977
Zvezda plenitelnogo schastya
7.2
- conductor (as Yu. Temirkanov)
- 1975
V to dalyokoye leto
5.2
- conductor (as Yu. Temirkanov)
- 1975
Blokada: Luzhskiy rubezh, Pulkovskiy meredian
7.1
- conductor
- 1974
Tsarevich Prosha
6.5
- conductor (as Yu. Temirkanov)
- 1974
O tekh, kogo pomnyu i lyublyu
7.0
- conductor (as Yu. Temirkanov)
- 1974
Moya zhizn
6.5
- conductor (as Yu. Temirkanov)
- 1973
Vsadnik bez golovy
6.5
- conductor
- 1973
Krasnyye pchyoly
6.1
- conductor
- 1972
Chelovek s drugoy storony
5.8
- conductor (as Yu. Temirkanov)
- 1972
Khozyain
6.6
- conductor
- 1971
Alexander Nevsky
7.4
- conductor: 1995 digital re-recording (as Yu. Temirkanov)
- 1938

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Personal details

Official sites
- Discogs
- France's national library catalogue
Alternative name
- Yu. Temirkanov
Born
- December 10, 1938
- Nalchik, Kabardino-Balkar ASSR, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Kabardino-Balkaria, Russia]
Died
- November 2, 2023
- St. Petersburg, Russia(Natural causes)
Spouse
- Irina Guseva? - 1997 (her death, 1 child)

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Russian conductor and violinist.

Quotes
I don't know if it's God's will, or nature's, that women give birth and men do not. That's something that no one takes offense at. But if you say that a women can't conduct, then everyone's offended. As Marx said, in response to the question 'What's your favorite virtue in a woman?'-'Weakness.' And this is correct. The important thing is, a woman should be beautiful, likable, attractive. Musicians will look at her and be distracted from the music!" He would add in that same interview, "The essence of the conductor's profession is strength. The essence of a woman is weakness