Russian maestro, 82, is out of intensive care
mainThe veteran conductor Vladimir Fedoseyev is making a good recovery, Tass reports from Moscow, after being rushed to hospital in a serious condition two weeks ago. He has been transferred to a regular ward and hopes to fulfil a pair of Moscow concerts in a month’s time.
Excellent news. I wish him a very speedy recovery!
I saw Fedoseyev conduct Dvorak 8 in Zurich a few years back and he was such a genial man, inspiring really lively playing from the Zurich opera orchestra. I’m glad he is getting better and imagined him to be considerably younger.
with all due respect and best wishes for his recovery, I have heard more stories from Soviet era musicians about this man and his close ties to destroying many careers ( if I understood correctly, he Plus music director of the USR folk orchestra, married brezhnev’s daughter, and was then converted into a highly political and borderline incompetent Soviet Maestro. One should see Wikipedia for his biography and some rather chilling information on his role in Soviet musical life.
He wasn’t married to Brezhnev’s daughter – his wife Olga Dobrokhotova was the host of classical music programs on Soviet TV and a music advisor to Sergey Lapin, Head of the Soviet TV and Radio Commitee (and a notorious anti-Semite). When Gennady Rozhdestvensky refused to purge all the Jewish musicians from the Grand State Radio & TV Orchestra and resigned from his position as the artistsic director, Dobrokhotova engineered her husband’s appointment – he was only too happy to do all the dirty deeds required … Before that, he conducted a folk ensemble of balalaikas and such …