Vyacheslav Lavrent'yevich Nagovitsin (; 21 December 1939 – 20 June 2023) was a Russian composer. He was a student of

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at the

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and he graduated in 1966 (postgraduate school, he graduated from the undergraduate school of the Conservatory in 1963). In 1963–1964 he worked in ''

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Opera and Ballet Theater''. In 1966–1970 he was a lecturer at the Mussorgsky Music School in

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. In 1968–1970 he also worked as the Music Director of the Leningrad Comedy Theatre. Since 1970 he became a professor at the Leningrad Conservatory. He orchestrated two unfinished operas of

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: '' Zhenitba'' and ''

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''. His orchestration of ''Salammbô'' was used by

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at the Mérida festival in 1991. Nagovitsin died on 20 June 2023, at the age of 83.Скончался Вячеслав Лаврентьевич Наговицин

Selected works

* Violin concerto, opus 21 (1970) * Concerto for Violin and Orchestra * Sonata for Flute and Piano * Ballad for Ukraine

References

Sources

* Moshevich, Sofia, ''Dmitri Shostakovich - Pianist'' (McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 2004) - * Cummings, David, ''International Who s who in Music and Musicians Directory'' page 483 (Routledge, 2000)

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