Background
Alexander Grigoryevitch Fridlender was born on July 2, 1906, in Saint Petersburg City, Russian Federation.
Alexander Friedlander
1958
Honored Artist of the RSFSR
Saint Petersburg Conservatory
Alexander Grigoryevitch Fridlender was born on July 2, 1906, in Saint Petersburg City, Russian Federation.
Alexander Grigoryevitch studied at the Leningrad Central Music College (1925-1929) and graduated from the Leningrad Conservatory (now Saint Petersburg Conservatory) in 1933.
After graduating from the conservatory in 1933, only one season from 1934 to 1935, Alexander Grigoryevitch directed the Voronezh Radio Orchestra, then from 1935 to 1938 in Odessa held the post of conductor of the Radio and Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, and from 1936 worked as the conductor of the Odessa Opera House.
In 1939 Alexander Grigoryevitch moved to Sverdlovsk, became the conductor of the Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, and worked there from 1939 to 1941 and from 1947 to 1974. From 1943 to 1947 he was a conductor in the Opera and Ballet Theater named after A.V. Lunacharsky.
And since 1946 Alexander Grigoryevitch had been teaching at the Sverdlovsk (now Ural) Conservatory, first at the department of opera training, and then at the department of composition and instrumentation. In 1966 he became an assistant professor and since 1980 he served as a professor. In 1958, Alexander Grigoryevitch was awarded the honorary title "Honored Artist of the RSFSR." During the war years, the musician temporarily left work at the Philharmonic and became the main conductor of the song and dance ensemble of the Ural Military District, performed as part of concert teams on the fronts of World War II. But even in that busy time composer's work continued.
