Ariy Pazovsky
Russian and Soviet conductor (1887–1953)
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Biography
He was a junior conductor at the Bolshoi from 1923 to 1928, and then director 1943–1948.[2] As a conductor of the Bolshoi Opera, he is credited with having returned parts of Modest Mussorgsky's opera Boris Godunov which had been censored in the Russian Empire.[3] On his arrival in 1943 Pazovsky was required to enliven the repertoire with some 19th-century operas, and thus had to postpone Prokofiev's War and Peace, but made this good with putting on Prokofiev's Cinderella.[4][5]
Awards and honors
- Honored Artist of the Republic (1925)
- Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1935)
- Order of the Badge of Honour (1936)
- Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1939)
- People's Artist of the USSR (1940)
- Two Stalin Prize first degree (1942, 1943)
- Stalin Prize second degree (1941)
- Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
- Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow"
