Igor Buketoff ( born Igor Buketoff ; May 29, 1915 , Hartford - September 7, 2001 , New York ) - American conductor , son of a Russian priest, arranger, teacher.
| Igor Buketoff Russian Igor Buketov | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Igor Buketov |
| Date of Birth | May 29, 1915 |
| Place of Birth | Hartford |
| Date of death | September 7, 2001 (86 years old) |
| Place of death | New York |
| A country | USA |
| Professions | conductor, teacher |
Biography
He was born in the family of a Russian Orthodox priest, thanks to whom he met with the outstanding conductor Leopold Stokovsky . The fate of Buketov was also influenced by the meeting in 1927 with Sergei Rachmaninoff : in his professional career, he often acted as a propagandist of Rachmaninov’s work and Russian music in general, having performed, in particular, in 1984, the premiere of Rachmaninoff’s unfinished opera Mona Vann (in his own orchestra). Another famous work of Buketov, related to the cardinal editing of the original musical material, is his processing of the 1812 Tchaikovsky overture with the addition of choral parts. The revised version of Modest Mussorgsky ’s opera Boris Godunov by Buketov was staged in the Metropolitan Opera in 1997 under the direction of Valery Gergiev .
After studying at the University of Kansas , the Juilliard School and the Los Angeles Conservatory, Buketov taught in the Juilliard School from 1935 to 1945 , worked with various American orchestras, including from 1948 to 1953 . was the conductor of concerts for the youth of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra . He led the choral department at Adelphi College and Columbia University from 1941 to 1947. In 1945 he was appointed music director of the Shatokua Opera Department, in 1947 he went on an American and European tour. Upon returning, he takes up the position of head of the Philharmonic at Fort Wayne and director of the orchestra department at Butler University , Indianapolis . As head of the philharmonic, he remains until 1966. In 1959 he created the World Music Bank, which today is called the International Contemporary Music Exchange.
Since the mid-1960s Buketov’s career acquired an international character - in 1964 - 1966 he, in particular, worked with the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra .
In 1941 and 1967, Buketov was awarded the Ditson Prize for his contribution to the musical life of the United States. In 2014, Barbara, daughter of Buketov and Tamara Squir, his niece handed over the rare score, Holy Week, authorship of Maximilian Steinberg to American conductors who were interested in Russian sacred music and in 2014 the Musica Russica publishing house in San Diego reissued the score previously considered lost . In 2014, the world premiere of Holy Week, and then New York, was performed by the Clarion choir under the direction of Stephen Fox. Thanks to Buketov, to whom the pupil of the latter, Dmitry Shostakovich, may have transferred the score to Steinberg, this work, written in 1923 and 90 years in obscurity, became the property of culture [1] .
Wife - Margaret, daughter of Barbara Mauk.
Notes
- ↑ Opening remarks by Vladimir Morozan on the performance of Holy Week by Maximilian Steinberg | iKliros . ikliros.com (November 1, 2016). Circulation date May 22, 2019.