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Nov 06, 1908 Simferopol, Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Russia Died on 29 Jan 1989 (aged 80)
Soviet composer
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About Mikhail Chulaki
- Mikhail Ivanovich Chulaki (Russian: ?????´? ???´????? ????´??, also transliterated as Tchulaki and Tschulaki) (November 19 [O.S.
- November 6] 1908 in Simferopol – January 29, 1989 in Moscow) was a Soviet Russian composer and teacher. He studied under the composer Vladimir Shcherbachov at the Leningrad Conservatory, graduating in 1931.
- He held administrative and teaching positions, including at the Leningrad Conservatory (1933–1941, 1944–1948), and taught composition at the Moscow Conservatory (from 1948): among his composition pupils was the 15-year-old Mstislav Rostropovich, whom Chulaki did much to support both materially and as an artist.
- Before World War II he was artistic director of the Leningrad Philharmonic. From 1963 to 1970 he worked as artistic director of the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow.
- While in that post, he gave Rostropovich his first major break as a conductor, inviting him to conduct Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin.His son was the writer Mikhail Mikhailovich Chulaki.
