Vyacheslav Nagovitsin

Vyacheslav Lavrent'yevich Nagovitsin (Russian: Вячеслав Лаврентьевич Наговицин) is a Russian composer born in Magnitogorsk (21 December 1939). He was a student of Dmitri Shostakovich at the Leningrad Conservatory that he graduated in 1966 (postgraduate school, he graduated from the undergraduate school of the Conservatory in 1963). In 1963-1964 he worked in Ulan-Ude Opera and Ballet Theater. In 1966-1970 he was a lecturer at the Mussorgsky Musical School in Leningrad. In 1968-1970 he also worked as the Music Director of the Leningrad Comedy Theatre. Since 1970 he became a professor at the Leningrad Conservatory. He orchestrated two unfinished operas of Modest Mussorgsky: Zhenitba and Salammbô. His orchestration of Salammbô was used by Valery Gergiev at the Mérida festival in 1991.

Selected works

• Violin concerto, opus 21 (1970)
• Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
• Sonata for Flute and Piano

Sources

• Moshevich, Sofia, Dmitri Shostakovich - Pianist (McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 2004) - ISBN 0-7735-2581-5
• Cummings, David, International Who s who in Music and Musicians Directory page 483 (Routledge, 2000) ISBN 0-948875-53-4

External links

• Vyacheslav Nagovitsin