Background
Raukhverger, Mikhail was born on December 5, 1901 in Odessa.
Raukhverger, Mikhail was born on December 5, 1901 in Odessa.
He graduated from the Moscow Conservatory under Felix Blumenfeld in 1927 and in 1929–1941 taught there.
Mikhail Raukhverger was born in Odessa. He composed several operas and ballets, a symphony and a symphonic suite, a cello concerto, three string quartets, piano pieces, more than four hundred choral works and songs as well as drama and film scores. He was awarded Honored Artist of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1974) and People"s Artist of Kyrgyzstan (1961).
He died in Moscow in 1989, aged 87.
He then moved to the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic, where he composed early Kirghiz operas and ballets.
Union of Soviet Composers.