Bolshoi mourns principal clarinet

Bolshoi mourns principal clarinet

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norman lebrecht

December 23, 2016

Rafael Baghdasaryan, solo clarinet of the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra of Russia and professor of clarinet at the Moscow Conservatory, has died. He was in his early 80s.

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  • MacroV says:

    I never heard him play but I met him in the early 2000s when I worked in Moscow, and heard some of his students, several of whom were exceptional.

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