Aleksandr Lokshin
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Aleksandr Lazarevich Lokshin was a Soviet composer of classical music. He was born on 19 September 1920 in the town of Biysk, in the Altai Region, Western Siberia, and died in Moscow on 11 June 1987.
Portrait of the Composer Aleksandr Lokshin by Tatyana Apraksina, 1987.
Rudolf Barshai
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Rudolf Borisovich Barshai was a Soviet and Russian conductor and violist.
Aleksandr Lokshin
…by Aleksandr Blok and The Cockroach (Tarakanishche), a comic oratorio (on a poem by Korney Chukovsky, considered to contain anti-Khrushchev innuendo). Rudolf Barshai in collaboration with Viktor Popov prepared Symphony No 6 for performance, however the performance of this composition was prohibited by the Communist…
Musikerporträts Rudolf Barschai, Dresden 1996