Mikhail Chulaki
Mikhail Ivanovich Chulaki (Russian: Михаи́л Ива́нович Чула́ки, also transliterated as Tchulaki and Tschulaki) (November 19 [O.S. November 6] 1908 in Simferopol, Crimea, Russian Empire – January 29, 1989 in Moscow) was a Soviet Russian composer and teacher.
He studied under the composer
Leningrad Philharmonic
.
From 1963 to 1970 he worked as artistic director of the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow.[2] While in that post, he gave Rostropovich his first major break as a conductor, inviting him to conduct Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin.[3]
His son was the writer Mikhail Mikhailovich Chulaki.
Notes and references
- Ho, Allan & Feofanov, Dmitry. Biographical Dictionary of Russian/Soviet Composers. New York: Greenwood Press, 1989. ISBN 0-313-24485-5
- Wilson, Elizabeth. Shostakovich: A Life Remembered. London: Faber & Faber, 2006. ISBN 0-571-22050-9
- Wilson, Elizabeth. Mstislav Rostropovich: Cellist, Teacher, Legend. London: Faber & Faber, 2007. ISBN 978-0-571-22051-9
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