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- Birth nameYuri Khatuyevich Temirkanov
- 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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- SpouseIrina Guseva(? - 1997) (her death, 1 child)
- Russian conductor and violinist.
- In 1968, he was appointed Principal Conductor of the then-renamed Leningrad Symphony where he remained until his appointment as Music Director of the Kirov Opera and Ballet in 1976.
- He received the Russian Federation President Prize in Literature and Art in 2002 (13 February 2003).
- In 2015, the Teatro La Fenice awarded Temirkanov its prize 'A Life for Music' (unofficially known as the Nobel Prize for Musicians).
- Temirkanov won in 1966 the All-Union Conductors Competition.
- 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
- Yes, women can be conductors. I am not against them conducting. But I simply don't like it.
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