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- Birth nameGennadi Nikolaevitch Rozhdestvensky
- Gennadi Rozhdestvensky was born on May 4, 1931 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He was an actor, known for 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988) and The Bolshoi Ballet (1957). He was married to Viktoria Postnikova and Nina Timofeyeva. He died on June 16, 2018 in Moscow, Russia.
- SpousesViktoria Postnikova(1969 - June 16, 2018) (his death, 1 child)Nina Timofeyeva (divorced)
- Conducted his first complete "Nutcracker" at the age of twenty(!) at the Bolshoi Theatre; he later conducted it for television.
- Conducted the BBC Symphony Orchestra from 1978 to 1981.
- Conducted the Vienna Symphony Orchestra from 1980 to 1982.
- Conductor of the Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre from 1951 to 1970.
- Conductor of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra (1992-).
- The position of a conductor who has a permanent appointment is that of the manager of a travel agency.
- The point of rehearsal is to put together the concert, not to give the concert. The concert brings with it an emotional intensity that couldn't, and shouldn't, be there beforehand, and I like to keep back a bit of improvisation on the night.
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