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| | Mravinsky, Yevgeny (Aleksandrovich) (Site not responding. Last check: 0000-00-00) |
 | | Mravinsky, Yevgeny (Aleksandrovich) (b St Petersburg, 21 May/4 June 1903; d Leningrad, 19 Jan 1988). |
 | | Mravinsky toured frequently with his orchestra, making many trips to central Europe and four to Japan, but travelling only once to Britain (1960) and once to America (1962). |
 | | Mravinsky was legendary for his electric live performances of Beethoven, Wagner, Bruckner and Tchaikovsky, and his championing of Soviet composers: among many others, he gave the premières of Prokofiev's 6th Symphony and Shostakovich's symphonies nos.5, 6, 8 (also dedicated to him), 9 and 10, and the official premières of Shostakovich's symphonies nos.11 and 12. |
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