What is Gennady Rozhdestvensky?
[[File:Gennady Rozhdestvensky.jpg|thumb|Gennady Rozhdestvensky]] '''Gennady Rozhdestvensky''' ([[4 May]] [[1931]], [[Moscow]] – 16 June 2018<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.mail.ru/society/33801938/|title=Ушел из жизни дирижер и пианист Геннадий Рождественский|first=Mail ru|last=Новости|website=Mail.ru Новости|access-date=2018-06-16|archive-date=2018-06-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180616125944/https://news.mail.ru/society/33801938/|url-status=dead}}</ref>) was a [[Russia]]n [[Conducting|conductor]]. Rozhdestvensky was born into a musical family. His name at first was '''Gennady Nikolayevich Anosov'''. When he started his musical [[career]], he took his mother's [[maiden name]]. Rozhdestvensky studied conducting with his father [[Nikolai Anosov]] at the [[Moscow Conservatory]]. He studied [[piano]] with the great pianist [[Lev Oborin]]. When he was 20 years old, he conducted [[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky|Tchaikovsky]]'s ''[[The Nutcracker|Nutcracker]]'' [[ballet]] at the [[Bolshoi Theatre]]. He soon became famous. He gave the first [[performance]]s of many works of [[Soviet]] composers, as well as the first Russian performance of [[Benjamin Britten]]'s ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream (opera)|A Midsummer Night's Dream'']]. Rozhdestvensky has conducted many [[orchestra]]s and made many [[recording]]s. In [[1969]], he [[marriage|married]] the pianist [[Viktoria Postnikova]]. Rozhdestvensky is known for keeping his [[rehearsal]]s short. He does this so that the orchestra do not get tired and are fresh for the performance. Sometimes he walks about the [[Stage (theatre)|stage]] while he conducts. He does not stand on a podium (a raised platform). ==Orchestras he has conducted== *1951-61 Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre (conductor) *1961-74 Symphony Orchestra of All-Union Radio and Television (Moscow) *1964-70 Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre (principal conductor) *1974-85 Chamber Theatre Orchestra *1974-77 Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra (artistic director) *1978-81 [[BBC Symphony Orchestra]] (c