Boris Lvovich Gutnikov (Russian: Борис Львович Гу́тников) (4 July 1931 in

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– 6 April 1986 in Leningrad) was a Soviet violinist, born in the Byelorussian SSR. He won the 1957 Long-Thibaud Competition and, most notably, the 1962

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. He had been appointed a teacher at the

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soon before.

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composed in 1987 his Memoria for violin and ensemble ''in memoriam Gutnikov''.

References

Voice of Russia - Musical tales of St. Petersburg

Concours International Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud - 1957 Palmares

1931 births 1986 deaths Soviet classical violinists Russian classical violinists Male classical violinists Prize-winners of the International Tchaikovsky Competition Long-Thibaud-Crespin Competition prize-winners People from Vitebsk Burials at Serafimovskoe Cemetery 20th-century Russian male musicians {{violinist-stub