Musician: Russian conductor Yuri Temirkanov dies

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Yuri Temirkanov has been chief conductor and artistic director of the Petersburg Philharmonic since 1988. He has now died at the age of 84.

Russian conductor Yuri Temirkanov died on Thursday at the age of 84 in his adopted hometown of St. Petersburg. “It happened in the hospital,” said St. Petersburg Philharmonic deputy director Yevgeny Petrovsky, according to state news agency Tass.

Temirkanov has been chief conductor and artistic director of the Petersburg Philharmonic since 1988.

The musician, who was born in the North Caucasus in the Russian republic of Kabardino-Balkaria, was already a well-known conductor during Soviet times and, among other things, music director of the Kirov Opera and Ballet Theater in what was then Leningrad. Today it is again known as the Mariinsky Theater. He was also in demand internationally. He worked with the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonics and was also a guest conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London and with the major symphony orchestras in the USA in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and Cleveland.

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