Vyacheslav Nagovitsin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Vyacheslav Nagovitsin

Russian composer

Date of Birth: 21-Dec-1939

Place of Birth: Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia

Profession: composer

Nationality: Russia

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Vyacheslav Lavrent'yevich Nagovitsin (Russian: ???????? ???????????? ?????????) is a Russian composer born in Magnitogorsk (21 December 1939).
He was a student of Dmitri Shostakovich at the Leningrad Conservatory that he graduated in 1966 (postgraduate school, he graduated from the undergraduate school of the Conservatory in 1963).
In 1963-1964 he worked in Ulan-Ude Opera and Ballet Theater.
In 1966-1970 he was a lecturer at the Mussorgsky Music School in Leningrad.
In 1968-1970 he also worked as the Music Director of the Leningrad Comedy Theatre.
Since 1970 he became a professor at the Leningrad Conservatory.
He orchestrated two unfinished operas of Modest Mussorgsky: Zhenitba and Salammbô.
His orchestration of Salammbô was used by Valery Gergiev at the Mérida festival in 1991.