Karl Eliasberg

Karl Ilitch Eliasberg (Belarusian: Карл Ілліч Эліасберг; Russian: Карл Ильич Элиасберг) (10 June 1907, in Minsk – 12 February 1978, in Leningrad) was a Soviet conductor. Born in Minsk, his father, Ilya, was an accountant, and his mother was a housewife. In 1911 the family moved to Elisavetgrad, where he began his musical education at the age of 6. He started as a violinist under the tutelage of Joachim Goldberg, a future professor of the Kharkov Conservatory who was himself a student of Isaac Zhuk. In 1916, at age 9, Eliasberg entered the gymnasium, where he studied until 1922. That year, his father died of typhus in Minsk, and, according to Eliasberg's autobiography, he and his mother then moved to Petrograd. He then entered the Leningrad Conservatory, where he studied violin under Professor Sergei Korguyev, who had studied under Leopold Auer. At the conservatory, Eliasberg simultaneously studied conducting, and graduated with a degree in violin in 1929. He then served as conductor of the Leningrad Theatre of Musical Comedy from 1929 to 1931 before joining Leningrad Radio as conductor. In 1937, he married a member of the orchestra, pianist Nadezhda Dmitrievna Bronnikova (1903-1981).

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