Khaikin, Boris (Emmanuilovich)
Khaikin, Boris (Emmanuilovich)
Khaikin, Boris (Emmanuilovich), prominent Russian conductor; b. Minsk, Oct. 26, 1904; d. Moscow, May 10, 1978. He studied piano with Goedicke and conducting with Saradzhev and Malko at the Moscow Cons. He was a conductor at the Stanislavsky Theater in Moscow (1928–35). From 1936 to 1943 he served as principal conductor of the Maly Theater in Leningrad; from 1943 to 1954, at the Kirov Theater in Moscow, and from 1954 to 1978, at Moscow’s Bolshoi Theater. He taught at the Leningrad Cons. (1935–53); then was prof, of conducting at the Moscow Cons. (1954–78). His most famous student was Kirill Kondrashin. He was made a People’s Artist of the U.S.S.R. in 1972. He conducted the premieres of a number of Soviet operas.
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