Nikolai Malko
Nikolai Malko (4 May 1883, Semaki, Ukraine – 23 June 1961, Sydney, Australia) was a Russian conductor.
He led the premieres of Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 1 and Symphony No. 2, and of Nikolai Myaskovsky's Symphony No. 5.[1] In 1951 he premiered Vagn Holmboe's seventh symphony with the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra.[2] Late in life he became chief conductor of the Sydney Symphony, having also worked and recorded quite often in Britain.
References
- ^ Reference for Malko's 1920 Premiere of Myaskovsky's 5th Symphony. Retrieved on 2007-01-12.
- ^ Rapoport, Paul (1996). The compositions of Vagn Holmboe : a catalog of works and recordings with indexes of persons and titles. Copenhagen : Edition W. Hansen, page 46. ISBN 87-598-0813-6.
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| Preceded by Valery Berdyaev |
Musical Directors, St
Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra 1926-1930 |
Succeeded by Aleksandr Gauk |
| Preceded by Launy Grøndahl |
Principal
Conductors, Danish National Symphony Orchestra 1930-1937 |
Succeeded by Fritz Busch |
| Sydney Symphony Orchestra Chief Conductors |
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Eugene Goossens (1947) • Nikolai Malko (1957) • Dean Dixon (1964) • Moshe Atzmon (1967) • Willem van Otterloo (1971) • Louis Frémaux (1979) • Charles Mackerras (1982) • Zdeněk Mácal (1986) • Stuart Challender (1987) • Edo de Waart (1993) • Gianluigi Gelmetti (2004) |
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