Background
Nikolai Dmitrievich Pokrovsky was born on October 15, 1901 in Tulchin, Vinnytsia Region, Ukraine.
Nikolai Dmitrievich Pokrovsky was born on October 15, 1901 in Tulchin, Vinnytsia Region, Ukraine.
Primary music education received from N.D. Leontovich (Tulchin). Nikolai Dmitrievich graduated from the Kiev Institute of Music and Drama N.V. Lysenko (1925, class of Professor N.A. Malko).
Nikolai Dmitrievich headed of the musical department of the theater "Berezsh" (1924-1926, Kiev). He was a conductor (1926-1933), chief conductor (1944-1964) of the Odessa Opera and Ballet Theater, conductor of the Kharkov Opera and Ballet Theater (1934-1940), chief conductor of the Lviv Opera and Ballet Theater (1940-1941) and conductor of the Voronezh Symphony Orchestra (1933-1934, Spartak cinema).
Nikolai Dmitrievich Pokrovsky played symphonic compositions by Wolfgang Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Giacomo Puccini, Pietro Mascagni, Georges Bizet , Hector Berlioz, Mikhail Glinka, Alexander Borodin, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Alexander Glazunov, Nikolai Myaskovsky and other composers.
In Odessa, 35, Risheljevskaya Street, on the wall of the house where he lived with his family for 20 years, a memorial plaque appeared in memory of this talented musician and outstanding conductor.
Quotes from others about the person
Nikolay Pokrovsky's son, Igor Pokrovsky: "The fact is that the chief conductor of the Opera House lives in the opera house. He does not live at home. Because in the morning, as a rule, four-hour or five-hour rehearsals. Preparing for the evening performance in the afternoon. In the evening there was the performance itself. Even if he does not conduct, the chief conductor is present at the performance. And all this from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m."
Nikolai Dmitrievich was married, had a son.
