Oleg Kagan

Oleg Kagan was among the foremost Russian violinists from your latter half from the twentieth hundred years. While he created a reputation by himself, many understand him for his collaborations with pianist Sviatoslav Richter, aswell for his chamber music activity having a clutch of Soviet performers that included his 1st wife pianist Elisabeth Leonskaja, second wife cellist Natalia Gutman, pianist Elisso Virssaladze, and violist Yuri Bashmet. Virtuoso violinist David Oistrakh was an ardent admirer of his pupil Kagan, organizing for him to record most of Mozart’s concertos while providing as his conductor in the business. Though Kagan performed very much Russian music, including functions by Shostakovich and Schnittke, he concentrated greatly, at least in the documenting studio, within the Germanic sphere: Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, and Brahms. A lot of his several recordings had been reissued within the German label Live Classics, EMI, and Olympia. Kagan was created in the Eastern Soviet town of Sakhalin on November 22, 1946. His dad was your physician with a enthusiasm for music. Adolescent Oleg was raised in Riga (Latvia), learning 1st with Joachim Braun at the neighborhood conservatory, after that with Boris Kuznetsov, who eventually consider him to Moscow for research. Kagan won initial award on the 1965 Sibelius Competition and second award on the 1969 Tchaikovsky. After Kuznetsov’s loss of life Kagan immediately started research with David Oistrakh and shortly found himself within a group of close friends that included Sviatoslav Richter, with whom he’d collaborate in various concerts. Between 1975 and 1983 they gave some acclaimed Mozart sonata recitals, many documented and later released. Through the entire 1970s and ’80s Kagan’s popularity grew as he expanded his repertory to add Messiaen (Quartet for the finish of your time), Ravel (Duo Sonata for Violin and Cello), modern Soviet composer Sofia Gubaidulina (Rejoice!), and functions from the next Viennese College. As Kagan appeared to be getting close to the zenith of his profession he became significantly sick in 1989. He previously many surgeries, but battled to remain energetic, touring European countries when he could and organizing celebrations. Though his doctors at a medical center in Lübeck, Germany, announced him too sick and tired to become released, Kagan discharged himself to seem at his last celebration, in Kreuth am Tegernsee, Bavaria. Soon after offering two Mozart concerts there, where he previously to become helped on-stage, he passed away on July 15, 1990, not really yet 44.